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Smoking Cigars By A Mountain Of Napalm
Submitted by Simon Black of Sovereign Man blog,
I need to caveat this missive and highlight that I am not a pessimistic person. I’ve traveled to so many places over the years– well over 100 countries. And I typically visit 30-40 each year.
So I’ve seen first hand the tremendous opportunity that exists in the world, and the incredible way that human beings innovate to overcome challenges.
But the reality is that the world is on fire right now. In some places, like Ukraine or Thailand, quite literally.
In many others (like Japan, China, and much of southern Europe), there are heaps of smoldering embers beneath a continent-wide funeral pyre.
And in the Land of the Free, it’s as if politicians and central bankers are smoking their back-room cigars at the foot of a mountain of napalm and thermite that grows ever-higher by the day.
If you step back and look at the big picture, there is cause for concern.
For one, the tiniest elite has achieved record wealth thanks to the endless money printing of central bankers. The richest 300 people in the world alone addded $524 billion to their fortunes in 2013, while billions of other people across the planet pay higher prices for food and fuel.
This gap between rich and poor has grown to its widest since the Great Depression… and I would argue in many ways since the feudal system.
Obviously this isn’t a tirade against wealth, but rather the massively disproportionate benefits realized by a tiny elite at the expense of everyone else. And it exists because there is no separation between Bank and State. As Henry Ford said,
“It is well enough that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”
Well, it’s happening. People might not fully understand how central banking works. But they know there is something very rotten in the system.
And they’re starting to realize that it doesn’t have anything to do with a single party, or an individual. Even in the Land of the Free, more voters than ever are disgusted by both parties and identify with neither.
This is fundamentally what’s happening in Ukraine. People understand the system is rotten to its core– that a band of criminals has taken control, and that ‘elections’ will only serve to put a new band of criminals in control.
It is precisely what will likely play out in southern Europe, where unemployment among the youth (i.e. those of revolutionary age) is astoundingly high. And potentially even in the Land of the Free.
It’s an uncomfortable and contentious notion, I know. But this rotten system is fundamentally the same in the developed west. The only difference is there is even more debt underpinning it.
Every living creature has a breaking point. It is in our instincts to rise up when threatened.
And rather than watching these kinds of events unfold on TV thinking, “That could never happen here,” I would suggest looking at the situation rationally, and historically. Many great civilizations before arrogantly assumed the same thing.
So the question to ask is, “Am I prepared if this kind of turmoil ever comes to my doorstep?”
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relax and light up biatch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ur5DX5vk8o
I love the smell of napalmed debt-Ponzi in the morning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBksHaTQCbU
Some day this war's gonna end...
lets all examine reality briefly
has it ever truly been different?
and lets not quibble degrees of different
Hey Obozo, Twinkie Pie,
Do You Hear the People Sing???
Thqnks for not saying ...Gold bitches or Keep stacking....LOL
I truly can not wait for this shit to kick off, truly. Though I may not survie it, humanity will and we are in such a need for a "Reset" it is breathtaking, but then again that is how we learn from Consequense, and NO other way. So lets Get 'r Done and see what is left............
No... I won't argue the necessity part, but you are really not looking forward to it...
That is where you are wrong spent the 90's running around the ME in Spec-Ops, living the shit in real time, I am well aware of what's coming, well aware - Nobody lives Forever
"running around the ME in Spec-Ops, living the shit in real time, I am well aware of what's coming"
Nope. Odds favor a third World World, which not a soul that ever lived on this planet has experienced. The last Time the world experienced a rest was WW1 with the rise of communism and facism and a World War. This time will not be any different. The only difference between the early world wars is that human will go extinct as the worlds 440 nuclear power plants and the megatons of spent fuel rods all melt down and unleash the the greatest extinction event in the planets history.
Its not just you will perish, everyone you know, everyone you ever seen or heard. Every single human will be dead as every drop of water and ounce of soil is contaminated.
We can already hear the beating of the war drums, as the US continues on a reckless path to destabilize the world for no real political or economic gain. The US has nearly completely destabilized the Middle East. What regions we have not manpulated, others have done or are in the process of doing. We have China Ready to pick a fight with Japan and the Philipines. Every where you look you can see people and nations getting argry at each other. Sooner or later some is going to push the wrong button which starts the third and final conflagation then ends it all. Too many people trying to consume a decline amount of resources spells extinction.
EDIT: My original post was mean. I'll just say that I don't see any value in comments of hopelessness like that.
"Guy, give me a fuckin break. "Odds favor"? To what odds are you referring? What data did you use to arrive at your conclusion? How does the fact that the human race has survived 100% of the catastrophies which have occurred since we've been around factor into your calculations?"
1. When has the world not plunged into a major war when economic crisises, or resource constraints occured? There is not a single period in civilization that humans avoid self-destruction when faced with really tough crisises. In the past 100 years we had two major World wars that easily killed over 100 Million people, and that was before the invension of nuclear weapons. This time will not be different! If you can't see that the world is beating the drums of war, then I don't think you see the big picture.
2. The Human Race is very young. The most recent global diaster, the Toba Eruption of 70K years ago nearly wiped humans out. And that disaster would become considerable less than the man-made event of 440 reactors & spent fuel pools melting down. If you recall in 2011 we had a single plant meltdown in Japan that has already contaminated 1/3 of the Pacific. The only reason why Japan is still populated today is because they managed to prevent SFP of reactor #4 from melting down. Had that single spent Fuel Pool collapsed, it would render all of Japan inhabitable. So Please explain you think Humans can survive 440+ meltdowns.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory
The only way another global war can be adverted is that the masses of the world unite in hanging the majority of the corrupt politicians and the people accept a significantly low living standard to offset resource depletion. In your opinion, what do you believe the odds that will happen,and happen soon?
That's the real question JohnQ.
Are things really different this time or are we, ZH readers (amongst others), simply part of the new generation that only knows a bit more, while thinking that we have finally uncovered the truth or the bigger picture?
I never stop questioning things but I remain humble enough to consider that each generation must have had its own more-enlightened bunch of people, each believing that they are the first to see, or at least sense, that the full picture is different from the one that's being portrayed in the general media.
The reason I say this is because, according to our new-found knowledge, the system as we now understand it, should have already imploded upon itself. A few months after I 'joined' ZH 4 years ago, I felt that I had uncovered enough to argue that the current system was like a dying horse that needed putting out of its misery. Yet, TPTB certainly don't seem like they have run out of magic tricks to dig themselves out of any new hole that might appear and the general ignorance around me seems as prevalent now as it was then.
Hopefully, to use another copyrighted ZH saying, this time it IS different and the number of people who have begun peeling "the onion of truth" is slowly approaching critical-mass around the world, but sadly, I still need convincing on that point.
Unless you lived the Great Depression and fought in WW1 & 2, you don't know jack s--t.. Protected by two oceans w friendly neighbor countries and the greenback being the reserve currency,I it wil take the oligarchs quite some time to see the fires of Kiev burning their butts. But it's coming.
Wait for it -eventually we'll all be saying "Unless you lived through the Greater Depression, and fought in WWIII, you don't know jack shit".
Back then during 19 dickety-two there were a whole lot more farmers and people with an independent spirit, but today we've got legions of people suckling off of Uncle Sugar's teat, and the likes of Monsanto controlling more of our food with each passing day. Take away either .gov assistance or Hot Pockets away and you'll see the mother of all shitstorms.
The best has yet to come.
We had to say dickety because the Kaiser had stolen our word for Twenty.
I do believe that there is something that is changing without a doubt. The system is rotten and the mass of people are very unhappy with what is going on. This follows as most people do not identify with either party in the US as there seems to make no difference. Look at the candidates that are lining up. They are like dynasties...the Bush or the Clinton dynasty..pick your poison.
There is a book called "The Fourth Turning". It refers to where we are now..the Unraveling and the Crisis that will be coming upon us all soon. WW3 could be in the cards. We have exported our way of life to the world and have been using our corporations to take over globablly. In the book it emphasises that it is not different but we are entering a time that has occured several times before. The wars are the markers.
Just think about it. For the first time we have the ability to completely destroy the world. If a nuclear bomb hits China and kills 150,000,000 people it is just a rounding number. They have another 1.2 billion to keep producing. The population in the world is now reaching critical mass. Food problems are starting and this due to weather changes...it is reaching critical mass; the oceans have been fished out and it is reaching critical mass; the environment is screwed totally and reaching the same; poverty is going up; skirmishes are everywhere you look; and don't forget the skirmishes here in the states....Occupy...Kent State...people are mobilized to start rioting and now they are armed to the teeth....and the gov't knows it and are arming themselves to the teeth. Look at our "Homeland Security". They are buying special vehicles with 50cals and distributing them to the police deptartments througout the US. They are making our police look like the Army...full autos, sniper weapons, blackout Suburbans with solid rubber tires. They look military. They are preparing for the problems that they obviously think will be coming down the road.
You are a part of a new generation but not any more enlightened than any other that has come and gone. Do yourself a favor and read "The Fouth Turning". It's a great book to give you answers to these questions.
Some of what you say is true, but the ocean is fished out? wrong. Americans have always been armed, matter of fact more people had guns 50 years ago, although there are now more guns out there...just less people have them. Kent State was 45 years ago...but the rest I would say you are spot on!
I was thinking 2013 was going to be the year of the great splat, but timing is everything, and so I was wrong there. Many people think they know everything, especially quite a few commenters here (not lumping you in that bunch). You know the type, the Jew haters (all Jews are zionists) and the anarchists, who think there should be no government at all. They will get their jungle soon enough!
"The system is rotten and the mass of people are very unhappy with what is going on. This follows as most people do not identify with either party in the US as there seems to make no difference. Look at the candidates that are lining up."
Except they can't seem to see the source of their problems. The majority continue to put in power those that are the most distructive while shunning those that offer another path. Your wrong that people no longer identify themselve with a party. In fact, the majority have aligned themselves with the candidates that offer them the most free stuff or a ridiculous ideological view (religion, economics, etc) that is self-destructive. People have lost their ability to think for themselves and have lost all their critical thinking abilities. The problems were created by the people who choose to elect or promote unsustainable policies because it suited there near term needs.
"You are a part of a new generation but not any more enlightened than any other that has come and gone."
I think you mean "a part of the last generation" as we will use the power of "complete destruction". Never in history has any nation avoided using its most powerful weapons to secure resources need for its survival. As the resources (especially food and water) become insufficent, nations will go to war since the only other option is to sit down and die. Few people are willing to die without a fight. We all have a survialist instinct. If your only means to survive is the distruction or death of someone else, People will always choose murder.
Politicans will force war on the masses in order to hide thier lies and distract the masses from the problems or lies they can no longer hide. At this time Peace can only be maintained as long as the lies are not exposed to the masses. Sooner or later the Masses will realize they've been swindled, robbed and lied to. They will seek the heads of the politicians to be hung on poles. Before this happens, The politicans will use more lies to send the masses to war so they can keep there heads for a wee-bit longer.
AGuy
So human history is a round-robin of this happening again and again -- not just the French Rev, but forever. It's obvious that talking gets us nowhere; only one solution really works until it perverts itself too. For those who don't likethis story and want to add the endlessly-repeating-through-history details of how perversion happens, be my guest. I'm simply giving the broadest outline of what always has happened. The "OUTs" get mad at the "INs" who worked or finagled and landed on top until the "OUTs" became the "INs" and the wheel turns until it all happens again. Endless.
What is it we're supposed to "learn" that will make us all want to be at the same level so that it will stop? Can't happen. That's why I leave out all the "greed", "unfair", "illegal", "democracy", "vote", etc. They're just details NOT the "causes".
Major world events are years in the making, and retrospectively the beginning is often impossible to figure. In time you become comfortable with what might have appeared imminent once upon a time... the proverbial elephant in the room, but in this case it's not hesitance but rather boredom, or acquiescence that leads us to become comfortable with the beast. So much so that after awhile we may even begin to believe it is not really there. This elephant is about.to spring to life, and I assure you that when it does everyone will see it. Maybe we have six months, maybe we have a year, perhaps even two... But three? I really don't think so.
There are so many bad things happening around the world it is hard to keep up. Anyone here at ZH should consider having a minimum of 5% of their net worth in gold. And I see nothing wrong with up to 25% or so.
I would not be at the All Inn however.
too late for me to go back .... im all in
You are braver than I am. If gold tops $55k, my hat's off to you, sir!
got gold?
Damn
Gold is not enough. You need a way to protect your gold and everything else. Invest in a couple of firearms and learn how to use them for real. The average "survivalist" who has bought himself an AR15, loaded it with 3lbs Picantiny rails, laser pointers and another bunch of crap is not going to make it. Similarly the guy who has shot a couple of magazines in a firing range and thinks he is ready, he is in fact a joke. Get some canned food. Don't pay attention to expiry dates, that's bullshit. If the can is intact and doesn't have signs of expansion, it's ok to eat even if it dates back to 1970.
Also, very important and always left out from the "prepers" manuals. Learn a practical marketable trade. Learn woodworking or blacksmithing or something like that. Nobody and I mean nobody will give a fuck about your PhD in engineering or your eLeeT derivative trading skilz when things go to shit. You will still need to be a able to do something useful in order to engage with anyone or belong any community though. Learn a real trade. You pottery class may in the end prove to be the most valuable thing you ever learned in your life. Don't make the mistake of thinking that running away in some isolated location next to a river somewhere in the middle of nowhere is a good idea. If you are totally isolated from everyone, you are much more likely to die of a cold or the kind of accident/injury you would normally laugh at than anything else.
However do get out of large cities, find a small town or village NOW, that things are still relatively calm, move there and try to integrate yourself into the community as much as you can. When SHTF it will be too late for that you will be viewed as an outsider and the chances are you will be ousted.
Also, many people mention gold exclusively as a means of exchange, especially on ZH. In a state of total collapse, alcohol and tobacco may also be valuable trading items. If fact at a particular moment they may be even more valuable. Keep some handy, not for you, keep them next to you gold.
Yes I am that paranoid.
And Learn How to Paramotor!
The the value of the ability to fly from any 100 yard open space cannot be overstated. The kit is cheap and you do not need a license (UK/USA)... but obviously good training can reduce the chances of you killing yourself.
Yeah right... And make yourself a red-neck-with-toys dream come true buzzing over head.
You can "fly from any 100 yard open space" but the landings are gonna be a real bitch with a few rifle rounds in your butt!
I like you.
learn how to culture yeast, ferment and distill alcohol. "if you can find me 6 cups of sugar, I can make you a liter of 80 proof", will save your life.
You are probably joking but it's true. It is a good thing to know how to do. But sugar can be bartered as sugar. It is a high value commodity. Learn how to make alcohol from grain or potatoes or anything else that can be fermented, and here is the catch. Learn how to distill properly unless you want to go blind. I am serious. Be careful how you distill, what you throw away and what you drink.
Agent
what are you saying?
Yeast make CO2 and EtoH...period. They don't make methyl alcohol or isopropyl unless you feed them wood. If you stick to grains, sugar, potatos or rice I don't think you can hurt yourself (a hangover maybe but you won't go blind). Trouble is when you distill with a lead container (like a car radiator) or use something other than the usual must or wort as a source.
There is always a methyl fraction. It may be small, but it is there. Small commercial distilleries always use the first cut for cleaning and degreasing.
You sir would be correct in all the above. Just refreshed all my gas supplies, 250 Gal water tank so I have been there and doing that. Certain amount of empowerment knowing you are as pepared as possible. Not many like minded folks around other than my tribe.
agent default
Common sense is welcome. PMs generally hard to break down easily to useable units of US currency...
I'm predicting we are all gonna die! But then it says that on the ZH masthead too.
Politely murmurs; After you.
Never get off the boat unless your going all the way
"Never get out of the boat! Absolutely goddamn right." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4dFDBYWuTc
It's not uncomfortable Simon. It's just history rhyming. And it's about time.
Charles Hugh Smith and Simon Black Rock da house¡
Is that mountain of napalm stamped 'Department of Homeland Security'?
No, that would be the mountain of hollow-points on the other side of the room.
How nice of DHS to conveniently stockpile them for me. I value my time and the Sam's Club super-size truckload drive-by pickup option saves me the trouble of spending several days going to every Wallyword within a 200 mile radius for a couple overpriced boxes of 50 rounds at each store.
damm straight!
just think of the useless, worthless, affirmative action refuse of "workers" at DHS.
now imagine the brilliant security protocols protecting that mountain of ammo.
all you need to do is own firearms in their favorite calibers. like 40s&w, for example.
happy shopping wtshtf.
Legend has it that the "Technicals" hired by the Regime to staff DHS and serve as Regime Police buried all the stuff under parking lots at DHS facilities so if the facilities were overrun, the ammunition would be hard to get to.
..think Mad Max would say only concern is that it won't be ignited.
Empires do not begin or end on a certain date, but they do end....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrN433XHi24
The entire documentary is online:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fbvquHSPJU
Being a two tour combat veteran I know it will be up to the veterans to help the everyday people get throug what's coming at us.
And we are Gona need every dam one of you
cavsgt Would be grateful if U would.... hope you're living next door!
So the question to ask is, “Am I prepared if this kind of turmoil ever comes to my doorstep?”
I'm no Satoshi6284017462927, he whom knows the whims of all from Argentinian Tienda owners to Vietnamese gold traders to Eastern Washington state gun laws, but I'm about as ready as anyone. I need a good generator. After the garden goes in this spring, I think I'll be as ready as I can be....which isnt saying much as the global storm will toss folks aside like a leaf in a tornado. I'd like to stay unscathed, but I'll act like its gonna knock on our door too....cuz it probably will. We are lucky to have a compound too. Keep stacking, packing and backing up yourselves by redundancy. Too much debt in the world. We are on a redux of the Great Depression leading to another world war.
"And in the Land of the Free, it’s as if politicians and central bankers are smoking their back-room cigars at the foot of a mountain of napalm and thermite that grows ever-higher by the day."
Yes and although they have been able to acquire wealth and power over generations they fail to see that over generations that same kind of wealth and power has always resulted in disaster.
I believe it is the reason for this kind of blindness is similar to why it is difficult to create a synthetic or A/I brain. When the mind interprets the external world through experience and analysis it creates it own perception of reality. In order for AI to adapt to a changing external world it would have to dynamically re-wire its circuitry. In the case of a bankster they would have to include aspects of the changing world have to interpret reality from many perspectives outside of themselves in order to control external events--to have them conform to their perspective of reality. That is not a possibility so like the cave man with its club they bash around hoping that this time it will be different.
Anyhow that is the realization that I cam to when I swore off of drugs and alcohol for ever.
See them clamber, these nimble apes! ... Towards the throne they all strive: it is their madness—as if happiness sat on the throne! Ofttimes sitteth filth on the throne—and ofttimes also the throne on filth.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
“It is well enough that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”
Seriously Simon?
He wrote in his autobiography, My Life and Work, that “it is a serious question how the people would regard the financial system under which they live, if they once knew what the initiated can do with it."
Your quote has never once been verified anywhere, beyond a hodgepodge of numerous things "possibly" stated by Ford. Citing WikiQuote is probably not the best way of doing your homework. Most of his speaking in regards to banking and finance had to do with he personal beliefs regarding the Jewish run banking industries...e.g. read up on the International Jew both in the New York World, The Dearborn Independent, and the actual book.
OK .. so Henry didn't say it. A homeless person did .. or nobody did. The MEANING of the words still rings true. The meaning / insight is not a product of who said it.
This is why most people are willing / voluntary slaves by their own hand. They assume others are smarter / better and do not have the confidence to believe their own lying eyes or interpret sentences with their own brain.
Touche
I personally thoroughly enjoyed Fords book, My Life and Work, and it really strikes a nerve when I read that mis-quote of his. The chapter "Money - Master or Servant" is a great portion of the book in regards to the dealings of bankers/financers/business and how that relates to the world at hand. That chapter is eerily echoing of how the world has changed over the past 15 - 20 years, with warnings of why banks are bad.
Taking control of our own destiny?
As I've said before. There should be people all over the United States demanding arrests of their elected leaders for what it's already done and what it's about to do in a Country that will start a World War. We already have the blatant proof of treason committed since 2001 for illegal acts of war, violations of domestic and international law at every level and ending most recently with a voice recording of two senior State Department officials openly planning the deliberate subversion of another Government that should have sent them before Congress and then a prison cell.
What happened? Where are they? And why won't they do something before it's too late?
"These are the times that try mens souls"... But Mr. Paine was talking about an America that no longer exists and is far removed from it's own reality.
Nice!
I to be honest have always wondered what would happen if I gathered all verfied and truthful information I could find about bankers and politicians, the laws they broke, etc. and then filed a police report or court case against them. Alas my balls and brain are not that big and wouldn't even know where to begin. But it would be telling if someone did this publicly, like Better Markets is currently doing with Chase.....
It should be relatively easy if we could all get behind something like this that changed the dynamic of everything we now face.
If we could use the grand jury it would definitely change "everything" as all the evidence is there.
denverdolomte
http://www.shadowstats.com/primers-and-reports
dizzyfingers
This from one of the icons of international law.
http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2014/02/22/francis-boyle-impeach-obama-tomorrow/
Prescott Bush, W's grandfather, asked Brigadeer General Smedley Butler of the Marine Corps, to get together 500,000 crack troops and surround Washington to take over the gov't from that Socialist FDR. Butler refused and went to the FBI. When that info came out the papers in this country lambasted Butler (the most decorated man in the military and a hero) and called him a liar and institued a smear campaign against him. After 7 months the truth came out that Butler was telling the truth. Nothing was done to Bush and his 1000 cohorts. That was treason. Nothing was done to them.
So, here we are today....the last 5 years have exposed total criminal behavior and yet we will not see anything happen to the bastards.
The only people that are going to jail are the underlings.
I went to school from the late 80's and graduated high school in 2002.....I speaking 100% in truth and honesty, I had never in my life heard of General Smedley Butler, until recently on ZH. Odd right? That a school system would not teach children of our nations greatest hero's? (sarcasm there) I have been leafing through War Is A Racket recently and am blown away by this.....
Prescott Bush, W's grandfather, asked Brigadeer General Smedley Butler of the Marine Corps, to get together 500,000 crack troops and surround Washington to take over the gov't from that Socialist FDR. Butler refused and went to the FBI. When that info came out the papers in this country lambasted Butler (the most decorated man in the military and a hero) and called him a liar and institued a smear campaign against him. After 7 months the truth came out that Butler was telling the truth. Nothing was done to Bush and his 1000 cohorts. That was treason. Nothing was done to them.
So, here we are today....the last 5 years have exposed total criminal behavior and yet we will not see anything happen to the bastards.
The only people that are going to jail are the underlings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxLFdJLSho8
"There is nothing, nothing I detest more than the stench of lies." -Kurtz
"If you step back and look at the big picture, there is cause for concern.
For one, the tiniest elite has achieved record wealth thanks to the endless money printing of central bankers. The richest 300 people in the world alone addded $524 billion to their fortunes in 2013, while billions of other people across the planet pay higher prices for food and fuel.
This gap between rich and poor has grown to its widest since the Great Depression… and I would argue in many ways since the feudal system.
Obviously this isn’t a tirade against wealth, but rather the massively disproportionate benefits realized by a tiny elite at the expense of everyone else."
Say it.
Ok?
Stop fucking around and SAY IT MOTHERFUKKER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They STOLE it into existence.
Having Plan A be "prepped for staying put" is fine. But having a backup Plan B (Escape Plan) is even more prudent.
Simon is simply ringing the bell for a Plan B, for those who will listen. That is the key Takeaway here and in all his posts.
Unfortunately, most Plan B escape plans involve stopping for gas. I suggest most escape plans end at the first gas station. The locals, if they have any gas will be controlling it, and sending the escapee packing, on foot.
It'll be interesting to watch people trying to make change for a 1oz gold coin. Should be fun.
Thats the reason for buying 1/10,1/4 and 1/2 oz size to go along with the 1 oz eagles
Silver dollars are probably worthwhile as well...
That problem that was solved centuries ago
The term "Pieces of eight" came from cutting up a gold coin like a pizza into 8 slices.... to make smaller purchases
That's why, before my terrible boating accident, I diversified my precious metal holdings with gold AND silver.
There's these interesting animals, they're called "horses", perhaps you've heard of them?
i heard they are picky eaters...
and only 1HP strong.
Perhaps I've owned them. Trouble there is lots o' folks see flank steak under your saddle and they've got guns. Two weeks later they see flank steak under your Wranglers, cowboy.
I'm sorry...Simon Black said something? (chirp, chirp, chirp.)
Back in the real world..."Ukrainians despise their protest leaders too. Looking for real man to lead them."
I'm starting to like these people!
Obviously I'm just some couch potato rooting on the "little guy" to "stick it to the man" (two thumbs up the President and "the fanatical fringe" at the SD...now he can call himself President 4-1)...having said that i've thought long and hard about this issue and think i've found a perfect candidate actually:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2MEssyNyQg
ya voul!
American's are all lost and crazy these days anyways.
Perfect time for The Arnold to have a "show of force"...bring along some WWF crazies...all in the name having a good time of course!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNGsEGGxpuE
I'm wondering if my 24' Pontoon boat will make it to Cuba.
Hola, hermanos!
What they have taken and stolen guillotines take back and return.
Maybe the tree of liberty is getting some of it's natural manure, pussy.
Thai hookers have been known to smoke their customers' cigars, and in fact some of them get pretty good at it.
Source: personal experience.
Son of Captain Nemo
The last "impeachment" was deliberatelty turned into a circus. The principles were...or looked like...or were made to look like... keystone kops. Don't think it would be different this time. But with hope in my heart I promise I'll watch those vids. Thanks.
AGuy
Regarding your #1:
Let's separate gun-powder wars from post-gunpowder wars, 'cause the first are very different from the second.
What's the common denominator of the second period...hint, same problem we have today. Beyond corrupt pols.
AGuy
Your #2:
"440 reactors & spent fuel pools melting down. If you recall in 2011 we had a single plant meltdown in Japan that has already contaminated 1/3 of the Pacific. The only reason why Japan is still populated today is because they managed to prevent SFP of reactor #4 from melting down. Had that single spent Fuel Pool collapsed, it would render all of Japan inhabitable. So Please explain you think Humans can survive 440+ meltdowns."
The world may NOT survive, we don't know yet. The events in Japan haven't yet played out.
That avoidable disaster has the same causal factor as in my other comment.
AGuy
"The only way another global war can be adverted is that the masses of the world unite in hanging the majority of the corrupt politicians and the people accept a significantly low living standard to offset resource depletion. In your opinion, what do you believe the odds that will happen,and happen soon?"
All of those are just reasons for all of us to fight with and kill each other but they have nothing to do with the cause of societies' problems post-gun-powder-war period... all the same causal factor, one and one only, always the same. Beyond individuals and societies but directing all and everything.
some songs are just perfect
When they kick out your front door
How you gonna come?
with your hands on your head
or on the trigger of your gun
When the law break in
How you gonna go?
shot down on the pavement
or wasting in death row
You can crush us
you can bruise us
but you'll have to answer to
Oh, the guns of brixton.
"But the reality is that the world is on fire right now. In some places, like Ukraine or Thailand, quite literally.
"In many others (like Japan, China, and much of southern Europe), there are heaps of smoldering embers beneath a continent-wide funeral pyre."
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Mr Black's customary understatement. What is he selling?
I spent half of January in Thailand. It was not on fire. Now I'm in China, lookin' out my window, and I sho' nuff don't see me no "heaps of smoldering embers beneath a continent-wide funeral pyre."