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Paul Craig Roberts Warns "The Entire World May Go Down The Tubes Together"

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Submitted by Paul Craig Roberts,

Washington’s IQ follows the Fed’s interest rate - it is negative. Washington is a black hole into which all sanity is sucked out of government deliberations.

Washington’s failures are everywhere visible. We can see the failures in Washington’s wars and in Washington’s approach to China and Russia.

The visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping, was scheduled for the week-end following the Pope’s visit to Washington. Was this Washington’s way of demoting China’s status by having its president play second fiddle to the Pope? The President of China is here for week-end news coverage? Why didn’t Obama just tell him to go to hell?

Washington’s cyber incompetence and inability to maintain cyber security is being blamed on China. The day before Xi Jinping’s arrival in Washington, the White House press secretary warmed up President Jinping’s visit by announcing that Obama might threaten China with financial sanctions.

And not to miss an opportunity to threaten or insult the President of China, the US Secretary of Commerce fired off a warning that the Obama regime was too unhappy with China’s business practices for the Chinese president to expect a smooth meeting in Washington.

In contrast, when Obama visited China, the Chinese government treated him with politeness and respect.

China is America’s largest creditor after the Federal Reserve. If the Chinese government were so inclined, China could cause Washington many serious economic, financial, and military problems. Yet China pursues peace while Washington issues threats.

Like China, Russia, too, has a foreign policy independent of Washington’s, and it is the independence of their foreign policies that puts China and Russia on the outs with Washington.

Washington considers countries with independent foreign policies to be threats. Libya, Iraq, and Syria had independent foreign policies. Washington has destroyed two of the three and is working on the third. Iran, Russia, and China have independent foreign policies. Consequently, Washington sees these countries as threats and portrays them to the American people as such.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin will meet with Obama next week at the UN meeting in New York. It is a meeting that seems destined to go nowhere. Putin wants to offer Obama Russian help in defeating ISIS, but Obama wants to use ISIS to overthrow Syrian President Assad, install a puppet government, and throw Russia out of its only Mediterranean seaport at Tartus, Syria. Obama wants to press Putin to hand over Russian Crimea and the break-away republics that refuse to submit to the Russophobic government that Washington has installed in Kiev.

Despite Washington’s hostility, Xi Jinping and Putin continue to try to work with Washington even at the risk of being humiliated in the eyes of their peoples. How many slights, accusations, and names (such as “the new Hitler”) can Putin and Xi Jinping accept before losing face at home? How can they lead if their peoples feel the shame inflicted on their leaders by Washington?

Xi Jinping and Putin are clearly men of peace. Are they deluded or are they making every effort to save the world from the final war?

One has to assume that Putin and Xi Jinping are aware of the Wolfowitz Doctrine, the basis of US foreign and military policies, but perhaps they cannot believe that anything so audaciously absurd can be real. In brief, the Wolfowitz Doctrine states that Washington’s principal objective is to prevent the rise of countries that could be sufficiently powerful to resist American hegemony. Thus, Washington’s attack on Russia via Ukraine and Washington’s re-militarization of Japan as an instrument against China, despite the strong opposition of 80 percent of the Japanese population.

“Democracy?” “Washington’s hegemony don’t need no stinkin’ democracy,” declares Washington’s puppet ruler of Japan as he, as Washington’s faithful servant, over-rides the vast majority of the Japanese population.

Meanwhile, the real basis of US power—its economy—continues to crumble. Middle class jobs have disappeared by the millions. US infrastructure is crumbling. Young American women, overwhelmed with student debts, rent, and transportation costs, and nothing but lowly-paid part-time jobs, post on Internet sites their pleas to be made mistresses of men with sufficient means to help them with their bills. This is the image of a Third World country.

In 2004 I predicted in a nationally televised conference in Washington, DC, that the US would be a Third World country in 20 years. Noam Chomsky says we are already there now in 2015. Here is a recent quote from Chomsky:

Look around the country. This country is falling apart. Even when you come back from Argentina to the United States it looks like a third world country, and when you come back from Europe even more so. The infrastructure is collapsing. Nothing works. The transportation system doesn’t work. The health system is a total scandal–twice the per capita cost of other countries and not very good outcomes. Point by point. The schools are declining . . .”

Another indication of a third world country is large inequality in the distribution of income and wealth. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2172.... ">According to the CIA itself, the United States now has one of the worst distributions of income of all countries in the world. The distribution of income in the US is worse than in Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Benin, Bosnia/Herzegovina, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cote d’Ivoire, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guinea, Guyana, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, South Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Liberia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malawi, Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Mauritius, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Senegal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, UK, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, and Yemen.

The concentration of US income and wealth in the hands of the very rich is a new development in my lifetime. I ascribe it to two things.

One is the offshoring of American jobs. Offshoring moved high productivity, high-value-added American jobs to countries where the excess supply of labor results in wages well below labor’s contribution to the value of output. The lower labor costs abroad transform what had been higher American wages and salaries and, thereby, US household incomes, into corporate profits, bonuses for corporate executives, and capital gains for shareholders, and in the dismantling of the ladders of upward mobility that had made the US an “opportunity society.”

 

The other cause of the extreme inequality that now prevails in the US is what Michael Hudson calls the financialization of the economy that permits banks to redirect income away from driving the economy to the payment of interest in service of debt issued by the banks.

Both of these developments maximize income and wealth for the One Percent at the expense of the population and economy.

As Michael Hudson and I have discovered, neoliberal economics is blind to reality and serves to justify the destruction of the economic prospects of the Western World. It remains to be seen if Russia and China can develop a different economics or whether these rising superpowers will fall victim to the “junk economics” that has destroyed the West. With so many Chinese and Russian economists educated in the US tradition, the prospects of Russia and China might not be any better than ours.

The entire world could go down the tubes together.

 

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Sat, 09/26/2015 - 22:58 | 6598073 OneHorseCarriage
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They will just steal whatever they want from someone else.

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 23:28 | 6598128 Vendetta
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They already did it

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 07:29 | 6598490 negative rates
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Yeah, somebody papered over my rock last night, now I need a pair of scissors to cut my way back into the light.

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 22:56 | 6598067 theFNG
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Whats the difference in Obama using ISIS to retain/gain footholds in the middle east and Putin fighting ISIS to retain/gain footholds in the middle east.  They are all the same crazy fucks.

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 23:00 | 6598078 OneHorseCarriage
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Putin doesn't intend to takeover countries in the Middle East. Soetoro and Co. do.

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 23:31 | 6598134 Savyindallas
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You are a true dumbass if you don't know the answer to your question. 

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 00:40 | 6598216 Pickleton
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Cant answer the question, eh?

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 23:01 | 6598080 buffed
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"Even when you come back from Argentina to the United States it looks like a third world country, and when you come back from Europe even more so"

Who wouda thunk that stuffing the country with both legal and illegal immigrants from places like Mexico, Central America, Somalia, and Haiti would result in America becoming like their countries or origin?

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 06:19 | 6598441 Lucky Leprachaun
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Exactly. Japan and Nigeria exchange populations and in 20 years Japan is Nigeria and Nigeria Japan.

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 23:02 | 6598081 me or you
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I just want Russia and China to destroy US. Period.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 00:09 | 6598182 will ling
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no need to want, they will - in a flash.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 10:24 | 6598342 TheObsoleteMan
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Why should Russia and China expend the energy when our own "leaders" are doing such a fine job all by themselves? The demise of the USA has been underway since the 1960s, even though proof wasn't visible until the 1990s {earlier in some places}. The 1960s was our Stalingrad as a nation. It all started with the broad daylight murder of Kennedy. He wasn't playing ball, and had to be made an example of for others who might get similar ideas. Then CONgress under the leadership of the gangster/socialist LBJ completed the welfare state that his mentor FDR had begun. If that wasn't expensive enough, our military involvement in Vietnam escalated dramatically. Guns and butter policies will destroy a country. It is interesting to note that because of these two evil twins, the Treasury found it necessary to demonetize silver.  Shortly after, Nixon came along and took us off of the remaining gold peg. The way was clear for wholesale government spending {deficit spending} and debt creation went to the moon.

 

As much as conservatives go on about Ronald Regan, it was he who push the peddle to the floor on government spending. He drastically increased military spending, and in spite of all of his talk about the evils of big government, grew the size of it larger than the three prior presidents before him combined! Then came a couple of Desert Wars, several lesser conflicts, ratification of "free trade" agreements which have served to destroy the middle class and the tax base plus, the untold trillions of money spent on "The War on Terror". This isn't even counting all of the money stolen over the years by corrupt politicians. Al Gore and Bill Clinton alone stole over $200 million between them. "W" was no saint either, he was a war profiteer, an offense that not that long ago would have got you strung up by a short rope to a tall tree. I can only imagine the true scope of the Kenyan's crimes. One day we will know.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 08:59 | 6598580 Cloud9.5
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The Germans have some experience with your wish.  Ask them how it worked out.

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 23:03 | 6598083 henry chucho
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But I notice Mr Paul Craig Roberts doesn't immigrate to his self proclaimed human rights utopias of China,or Russia..No,no,no,he would rather have YOU test the waters first,before HE takes the plunge..

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 23:29 | 6598130 Savyindallas
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PCR will stay and fight  -take back our Country. True patriots don't run. We are well armed and ready, regardless of the costs. 

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 08:48 | 6598566 Berspankme
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It's getting late in the game

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 23:11 | 6598093 Crocodile
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ZH'ers will love this list; it is bitter-sweet because it is both true, but sad.

http://www.zengardner.com/agenda-2030-translator-uns-new-sustainable-dev...

Brave New World comes to mind.

 

Also for those just arriving:

How to Understand US Action in the Middle East -The Wolfowitz Doctrine  http://www.zengardner.com/understand-us-action-middle-east-wolfowitz-doc...
Sat, 09/26/2015 - 23:17 | 6598102 TeethVillage88s
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"Another indication of a third world country is large inequality in the distribution of income and wealth. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2172.... ">According to the CIA itself, the United States now has one of the worst distributions of income of all countries in the world."

Link probs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_distribution_of_wealth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equality

- PCR is pointing out that USA is surrounded by Third World Countries on these lists.

- Except for the listing of OECD country GINIs which prove there is a "Quickening"

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 23:23 | 6598113 dexter_morgan
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The schools are declining . . .”

Nuh uh, we have ZWO based Common Core coming to save our asses. Developed by some 'chosen ones' at Bennington, you KNOW it will be great.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 06:14 | 6598437 Lucky Leprachaun
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Common Core was designed to dumb down the serfs along the lines of Bertrand Russel's prophesy n his book 'The Impact of Science on Society' which exposed the long term goals of the Luciferian elite.

"Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organised insurrection of sheep against the practice of eating mutton."

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 23:25 | 6598120 Yen Cross
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 Who is Wolf-O-witz?  <-> K-Street Trash.

 One has to assume that Putin and Xi Jinping are aware of the Wolfowitz Doctrine, the basis of US foreign and military policies, but perhaps they cannot believe that anything so audaciously absurd can be real.

 JFC!  Henry Kissinger re~incarnate?

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 23:35 | 6598139 q99x2
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Thank God for Putin and Xi Jinping. If they would hang their bankers in public it would be proof that their countries are the new leaders of the free world.

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 23:42 | 6598153 Yen Cross
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  I can't wait to invest money in Russia, The MICEX is trading insane ratios.

 A fucking retard could make money trading Russian stocks.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 00:08 | 6598179 Archive_file
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China will, Russia won't.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 00:10 | 6598184 Archive_file
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China will, Russia won't.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 06:09 | 6598433 Lucky Leprachaun
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The Tribe are still well ensconced in Russia.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 00:25 | 6598200 HRH of Aquitaine
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China has imprisoned bankers.  Have you not been paying attention?

Sat, 09/26/2015 - 23:46 | 6598157 Vendetta
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neoliberal economics NEVER made sense. I noticed in the past 20 years that it has been pushed by its cronies and shills, not one logical explanation for how it works for all has ever been made. Nor was it ever debated intelligently.

At least now I understand the old movie "They Live" completely. And I've had my pair of sunglasses.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 06:08 | 6598430 Lucky Leprachaun
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The exact same thing can be said about multiculturalism/diversity as about neoliberal economics.  We're endlessly told how good it is but nobody ever explains exactly how it's so good.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 09:21 | 6598599 falak pema
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The melting pot is what made America that you call "white".

It was multicultural from the day French and English Mixed with the Spaniards and the Amerindians.

What part of that orginal mix don't you understand?

There is no pure race. And, for those races that try and live in autarcy the genetic degradation and civil wars that result from tribal infighting are just awesome.

That's genetics and history.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 09:50 | 6598644 TheObsoleteMan
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Stop muddling the water about this travesty known as multiculturalism. Your premise is a lie, sounds like you are in academia, they are world famous for sugar coating communist inspired poison. Dirt bag scum! We have NEVER before experienced what we have now: NON STOP MASS INVASION OF NON EUROPEAN PEOPLES. That being said, we here in the USA don't have it near as bad as our poor brothers and sisters in Europe. Mexicans are mostly christian, some have more Spanish in them than native Indian, and just want to be left alone to work, at least they don't want to cut our throats like the Muslim filth does. But recently, even that is changing, as 100k Syrians are being brought here. Rest assured, that is just the first batch. UNESCO says there are over 4 million "refugees" from the ME that the west will have to absorb. When does this nightmare end? First off, trash like you need put in their place. Your propaganda needs nipped at the bud before it has a chance to grow, and poison people's minds.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 10:06 | 6598666 falak pema
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haha!

So you prefer pride and prejudice to the history of your country?

You are the foreigner in the land you call "of the brave". Not so brave anymore, more depraved and in rage.

ANd you would prefer to qualify your depraved rage as a sign of your superiority?

Muslim filth is no worse than christian filth that destroyed the Incas and the Aztecs. They broke every oath they made before GOd. They broke every treaty they made with the locals.

500 hundred conquistadors and their Jesuits, killed hundred of thousands of the indigenous in their own lands to raise what ?

A white civilization ? A christian civilization ? And then they and their kind from neighbouring lands of Europe empowered the slave trade to bring black slaves to run their plantations; people without any rights!

So hey, did that History just exit your superior mindset like a turd exits your white ass?

WHite, brown or black a filthy mind engenders its own diatribe based on notions that debase the human thread : Race, religion and imperial manifest destiny type hubris.

There is no faith, hope and charity there.There is no life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, if its based on other people's slave labour.

Go eat your own shit instead of spreading it on the Net.

Your political construct is the ONE that spreads hubris and breeds the beast of Obscurantist rage all over the world.

The fact that it comes back to bite your own civilization is pure Nemesis plays or Karma or reaping what you sow.

Its your show, now man up and OWN it.

If you go the way Hitler went than you know whats up ahead for you.

 

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 10:35 | 6598735 TheObsoleteMan
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First, I give you a cyber kick to the face! {if you are a man}. If you are a Muslim man, I'd cut your beard and slap you with a beacon strip. If you are a woman, I'd just mess up your do. If you are a muslim woman, I'd force sausage down your throat {along with something else, HAHA!}. Your revisionist history is like your head, full of holes. Here is the real truth:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_Qpy0mXg8Y

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 10:47 | 6598756 falak pema
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your poetry is awesome.

I am neither a christian nor a moslem.

Not to worry I am a man and can stand your running kind who wants to hide in NZ !

hahaha! Revisionist indeed.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 11:28 | 6598847 TheObsoleteMan
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Never said I was hiding anywhere, and NZ is too far from those I love. You are NOT a man in any sense. You are a pathetic excuse for anything really, the sooner fate has it's way with you, the better place the world will be.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 13:03 | 6599241 falak pema
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Read what you wrote above...

I believe your obsolescence more then your venom.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 17:23 | 6600032 Lucky Leprachaun
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"I am neither a christian nor a moslem."  I spotted that straight away.  As I spotted what in fact you are.  Why not tell the rest of the guys?

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 17:19 | 6600023 Lucky Leprachaun
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Your premise fails even within its own terms of reference because multiculturalism is the anthithesis of the melting pot you espouse.  In any event the people who settled what's now the USA  were almost exclusively European, thus having few impediments to integration.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 00:01 | 6598169 Falling Down
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The USA is finished, and Putin and the leadership in China know it.

Xi's visit is a mere formality. He and his elties over there will continue to look the other way, while the rich of China continue to buy up American real estate and some companies, and pretty soon it will be on the cheap.

That way it takes less effort to influence U.S. politics, the Chinese will already be living here, and spreading gold, or whatever, around.

 

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 00:02 | 6598170 TheObsoleteMan
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Bringing down the global system is their goal. How else are they going to usher in global governance, digital currency and the end to the sovereign state?

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 00:10 | 6598186 TheRideNeverEnds
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The USA is that guy everyone kinda knows but nobody is really friends. Ya know the one; he generally rubs people the wrong way cause he is a dick to everyone and sometimes downright mean but you still hang out with him from time to time cause whatever. You go along with his bullshit cause he is fucking crazy. You know if you slight him he may very well come to your house and kill your whole family with an axe.

The USA is that guy.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 02:59 | 6598307 AlfredNeumann
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Welll stated.

 

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 05:49 | 6598416 Thick Willy
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I am that guy.  'murica, fuck yea!

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 00:12 | 6598187 kiwimail
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Even the .01 percent will soon be exiting.  Someone needs to start a website to keep track of where they are hiding out.  I will start with one such location. Google maps -43.5183658,171.7626948

Listed on county records as a workshop and storage shed, has a valuation of $1,500000 for improvements, around 3 mill for the land. Approx 70 miles west of Christchurch NZ  A couple years it was faintly visible from the highway but now is totally screened by fast growing pines.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 00:23 | 6598196 HRH of Aquitaine
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Jealous?

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 03:08 | 6598309 chopd livr
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yes.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 04:27 | 6598347 TheObsoleteMan
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I always said the best place to hide would be NZ.  The other, but to a lesser degree is Iceland. Both are Islands, have been exposed to little immigration, are almost exclusively Caucasian, and have strong sovereign governments. NZ has powerful earthquakes, but it is in the southern hemisphere, which is going to be a big plus when the ICBMs begin to get thrown around.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 06:05 | 6598429 Lucky Leprachaun
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Sorry to differ. NZ is a magnificent place but has succumbed to the mass immigration bacillus. The people who made the country what it is - those of British origins - will be in a minority soon. A country comprised of Mauris, Indians, Chinese and Muslims will not be NZ.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 06:17 | 6598438 Tinky
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At last count those with European ancestry are still well in the majority (69%). It is also laughable that you would lump the original New Zealanders – the Maori – in with more recent immigrants, and below the Europeans in terms of authenticity.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 17:15 | 6600008 Lucky Leprachaun
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Welll when the Europeans arrived the Maoris were utterly primitive  cannibals.  That is a simple statement of fact.  Everything that NZ is today - apart from the physical environment - has been the product of Europeans. And soon to be  destroyed by the non-Europeans taking over.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 08:06 | 6598520 Infinite QE
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Isn't their a khazar now running NZ? If so, fucked is as fucked is.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 08:45 | 6598561 Berspankme
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Tons of Chinese in NZ

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 10:45 | 6598752 falak pema
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why does a superior denier like you WANT to hide amongst the Maori brownies?

Home of the brave and you hide?

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 00:16 | 6598190 kiwimail
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Zoomin on the small clearing to see the bunkers.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 00:27 | 6598202 KashNCarry
Sun, 09/27/2015 - 00:28 | 6598203 jack stephan
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Humanity is "not economically viable" , not much else to say after that.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 00:44 | 6598222 GRDguy
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Hmmm, does PCR have short term memory???

PCR wrote: "In contrast, when Obama visited China, the Chinese government treated him with politeness and respect."

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-11-10/china-sending-america-message

Maybe PCR missed this ZH commentary.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 00:50 | 6598228 honestann
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The fact is, authoritarianism, corruption and stupidity are destructive.  Since authoritarianism, corruption and stupidity have now reached unprecedented levels, destruction now drastically overwhelms production.

Some believe humans are going down the drain due to "finite resources".  Nothing could be further from the truth.  Absent the destructive influences of authoritarianism, corruption and stupidity, increases in efficiency and new technologies are more than sufficient to raise the standard of living for every human on earth, even given a growing population (which I don't want, but could be supported).

But the predators-that-be are absolutely resolute in their insistence authoritarianism rule, corruption rule, and stupidity of the masses grow exponentially.  And the masses, even the few who understand, are sheep.  They refuse to take actions against the human predators who dominate planet earth.

And so, humans are finished.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 01:50 | 6598271 MASTER OF UNIVERSE
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"Humans are finished."

 

Ontologically, humans are never finished, honestann. Read up a bit on Ontology.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 04:17 | 6598343 Global Douche
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Disagreed. Humans haven't been pushed enough past the collective pain thresholds to strike back in this scenario. Even though history has taught TPTB to prepare for resistance against their nonsense, we're like the Markets. Yes, we may be mocked through significant propaganda (such as the ongoing manipulation of PM prices) and most will fall for the bullshit, but humans have a rubber band which can snap back violently and carry a collective and nasty chain reaction. We're not there yet. Ferguson and Baltimore are just trial balloons before the real SHTF.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 00:51 | 6598229 More for me
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PCR is like a stopped watch. Like all the doomsayers on ZH. The sky is falling every day here. Cry me a river because less for some means more for others. No one said life was fair and we certainly aren't our brothers keepers. I don't get the point of all the same articles over and over again, blaming the rich. They just happen to be rich. Someone has to be and when someone is rich someone else is not. It is the balance of nature and not some evil conspiracy. No one chooses to be rich or poor. They just are. The US government is too stupid to create a system that intentionally creates wealth for some and not for others. Shit happens. Gloom and doom sells page views. What does PCR want these rich evil doers to do? Just give all their money to the homeless? Create jobs that are not needed for people who have no skills other than to push paper or a broom? I don't get it.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 01:53 | 6598274 MASTER OF UNIVERSE
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R  E  V  O  L  U  T  I  O  N

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 04:10 | 6598340 Global Douche
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More and more, I suspect this will be THE solution to it all

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 02:37 | 6598297 Really20
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You're a joke. The debt-backed monetary system in which private banks create all money at interest is the foundation of the "capitalism" that you appear to so fervently support. What we need to help working people, who create all of the economic value in the world, is to eliminate the debt-backed monetary sytem and eliminate investor control over enterprises. Investors should contribute money to businesses at their own risk and for a defined payoff (as %age of profits), rather than being perpetually able to milk enterprises with buybacks, leveraged buyouts, and dividends.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 05:51 | 6598418 GreatUncle
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Who creates the economic rules?

So you agree with the vast quantities of derivatives not based on any real substance.

250x the amount of real gold in the world in paper derivatives.

QE that has been shown to flow straight into the wealthiest pockets.

minimum wage, bet you love this well it is like having a y = mx equation where when you add the minimum wage it becomes y = mx + c a constant increase to the whole equation and if you do not get a pay rise you lose.

Then we come to helicopter drops, exactly the same as the minimum wage concept just now it becomes y = mx = c + H unless it is handed out to favourable people like the NSA or homeland security operativers BUT NOT YOU?

Then all the underhand LIBOR, FX FRAUD, GOLD PRICE RIGGING  and all the other shit going on that affects the price you pay for stuff and in EVERY CASE IT INCREASED THE PRICE, did not lower it so if you were poor you were locked out of mechanisms.

NOT ONE OF THOSE MECHANISMS DID I CREATE OR PROFIT FROM but all those at the top did! Blame the rich, nope they created an economic mechanism that best served them and through legislation and taxation you are forced to be economic slaves to those polices.

The best one they created was Keynes, think of 2%, but underhandedly it is about excess that if you manage to earn an excess way past a critical level the income growth becomes self generating. Failure to hit this critical level you find your wealth YOY shrinks under forced central banker, rich directed economic policies.

Now about all those tax evasion schemes, all legit but being an ordinary mortal you do not have the excess left over to really exploit. That one was sure created by themselves for themselves.

Speechless you came to ZH and cannot see the way they operate although I think alot of ZH'ers realise this but play the game knowing this shit goes down and HEDGE ACCORDINGLY.

Hedge accordingly the mechanism still exists though.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 05:54 | 6598423 Lucky Leprachaun
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Your thinking is based on the fallacy that 'collapse' will be a dramatic once-off event. IMHO it will be a long drawn-out affair. I'd add that it's been well underway for a long time.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 06:31 | 6598452 tsuki
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I am 68 and I can state that it has been going on all my adult life.  A slow ride, down, down, down.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 08:40 | 6598553 falak pema
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thats just you as individual; not the human race's time line.

Don't confuse you and them/

Having said that, the current Empire; political construct; has some big problems it created for itself as for all the others.

But there again, an empire is not the world.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 00:55 | 6598233 amanfromMars
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And, believe it or believe it not, Paul Craig Roberts and Zero Hedgers, there are other other worldly forces and metadata sources at work, rest and play in the same field of prime interest and premium pay …… http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2015/09/25/trillions_in_surveillance_gchq/#c_2646474

 

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 02:54 | 6598303 jcdenton
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I was once on PCR's email list. I unsubbed when I could tell he was just ignoring my emails, challenging him on certain points. He came back in a general post citing that he gets too many emails to respond to any of them ..

Okay ..

I'll grant you that much just to be generous ..

One day PCR published an article on the lie about OBL's death. So I asked him for his source. Because he cited none. Basically, a little bird told him ..

Later I asked him about Directive 166. No response. I'm sure he didn't have the clearance for it, but it was declassed in 2010. So if he kept his White House connections, why didn't he know about it?

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/09/22/fraud-on-the-u-s-supreme-court-b...

So you can see why guys like PCR, Stockman, Baker, Regan, et al all claim to be "Reagan Insiders," I don't take serious anymore. Because all these are in reality Bush 41 operatives. None of these knew Reagan. That is the real Reagan.

Reagan trusted very few in his admin. Many of which are dead. Those living that Reagan trusted ..

Leo Wanta - Totten Doctrine Secret Agent

Edwin Meese - Atty. Gen.

William Sessions - FBI

John Vessey - CJCS

Ross Perot - Special Envoy

Ron Paul - Congressional Ally (they saw eye to eye on the Federal Reserve)

Sandra Day O'conner

 

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 03:11 | 6598306 Yen Cross
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  I never asked for this job. I'll stand up for my neighbors, and their freedoms.

  I've studied history. Bitchez

 I've skydived and rock climbed/

 GOD plays mortality beautifully. My 30's were fun.

 

 I love women. Not childish 20-somethings

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 03:47 | 6598330 Kina
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China can easily make life hell for Japan, sabotage a nuclear power station here and there, the country is so small that its easy share a sneeze.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 04:05 | 6598337 Global Douche
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Paul Craig Roberts again nails it! There's one comparison I wish he'd made though:

Washington's disgusting behavior toward any nation not in bed with it is also carried over to the People who pay the salaries!

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 05:04 | 6598352 NuYawkFrankie
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Welcome to ZSSA - ZIO Slave-State Amerika

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 05:22 | 6598387 Magooo
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PCG does not get it.

 

A fucking 7 yr old could be made to understand that we are FUCKED

 

HIGH PRICED OIL DESTROYS GROWTH According to the OECD Economics Department and the International Monetary Fund Research Department, a sustained $10 per barrel increase in oil prices from $25 to $35 would result in the OECD as a whole losing 0.4% of GDP in the first and second years of higher prices.  http://www.iea.org/textbase/npsum/high_oil04sum.pdf

 

HOW HIGH OIL PRICES WILL PERMANENTLY CAP ECONOMIC GROWTH For most of the last century, cheap oil powered global economic growth. But in the last decade, the price of oil production has quadrupled, and that shift will permanently shackle the growth potential of the world’s economies.  http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-09-23/how-high-oil-prices-will-permanently-cap-economic-growth

 

THE END OF CHEAP OIL  Global production of conventional oil will begin to decline sooner than most people think, probably within 10 years

 Feb 14, 1998 |By Colin J. Campbell and Jean H. Laherrre    http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-end-of-cheap-oil/

 

 

BUT WE NEED HIGH OIL PRICES:  Marginal oil production costs are heading towards $100/barrel http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2012/05/02/983171/marginal-oil-production-costs-are-heading-towards-100barrel/

 

The marginal cost of the 50 largest oil and gas producers globally increased to US$92/bbl in 2011, an increase of 11% y-o-y and in-line with historical average CAGR growth.  http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2012/05/02/983171/marginal-oil-production-costs-are-heading-towards-100barrel/

 

 

Steven Kopits from Douglas-Westwood said the productivity of new capital spending has fallen by a factor of five since 2000. “The vast majority of public oil and gas companies require oil prices of over $100 to achieve positive free cash flow under current capex and dividend programmes. Nearly half of the industry needs more than $120,” he said http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/11024845/Oil-and-gas-company-debt-soars-to-danger-levels-to-cover-shortfall-in-cash.html

 

Sanford C. Bernstein, the Wall Street research company, calls the rapid increase in production costs “the dark side of the golden age of shale”. In a recent analysis, it estimates that non-Opec marginal cost of production rose last year to $104.5 a barrel, up more than 13 per cent from $92.3 a barrel in 2011.   http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/ec3bb622-c794-11e2-9c52-00144feab7de.html#axzz3T4sTXDB5

 

THE PERFECT STORM (see p. 58 onwards)

The economy is a surplus energy equation, not a monetary one, and growth in output (and in the global population) since the Industrial Revolution has resulted from the harnessing of ever-greater quantities of energy. But the critical relationship between energy production and the energy cost of extraction is now deteriorating so rapidly that the economy as we have known it for more than two centuries is beginning to unravel. http://ftalphaville.ft.com/files/2013/01/Perfect-Storm-LR.pdf

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 05:37 | 6598403 Thick Willy
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Irrelevant.  The only thing that matters if white birth rates.  If you want to know why the Western (white) world is going down the tubes, check how many kids you had, and your brothers and sisters and cousins.  Then compare to your grand parent's generation.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 07:12 | 6598476 Horseless Headsman
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Your point is probably correct, but we are talking Everybody here, and the lack of energy has implications extending into the far distant future, not just for those presently alive.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 05:24 | 6598390 GreatUncle
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Good old America will take the global economy and world down with it and it really is not worth contemplating anything else. This is the problem for any dictatorship, because to lose power and wealth is JUST NOT ALLOWED.

Not bound to this world or a nation no more has interesting and endless possibilities.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 05:35 | 6598402 Thick Willy
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The WHITE world is going down the tubes because white people stopped having children.  Forgot how to fuck and forgot how to fight.  Won't even defend their own countries from mass foreign invasion.  80% of the "immigrants" to Europe are just military aged males looking for a hand out.

They told you not to reproduce because it was bad for the Earth/mother gaia.  Now they tell you to let in tens of millions of non-white men to replace you.  Born of families and people that still have children and value family.  Seems like you got the short end of the stick.

Maybe, just maybe, that was the plan all along.  To exterminate white people and destroy all white nations.  Not that this has been their stated goal for 100 years or anything....oh wait:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paneuropean_Union

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nikolaus_von_Coudenhove-Kalergi

"The man of the future will be of mixed race. Today's races and classes will gradually disappear owing to the vanishing of space, time, and prejudice. The Eurasian-Negroid race of the future, similar in its appearance to the Ancient Egyptians, will replace the diversity of peoples with a diversity of individuals."

World War 2 was fought entirely for the purpose of establishing the European Union and to genocide all whites from Europe via mass immigration from Africa and the Middle East.  This is not a new crisis, this is a 100 year of plot coming to fruition.  The historical proof is right there for anyone with the eyes to see it.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 05:47 | 6598412 Lucky Leprachaun
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Ten years ago I'd have laughed at your comment.  As the man said, I'm not laughing now as I see my race and civilization, evolved over thousands of years, deliberately destroyed before my eyes and denied to my offspring.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 05:55 | 6598425 Thick Willy
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What has happened and what is happening is EXACTLY what these people said they were going to do.  "These people, these globalists, whoever they are", in the words of Alex Jones.  In his interview with someone who was quite specific about who "these people" are.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 06:10 | 6598434 AlfredNeumann
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Says the moron, who last night said Africa is a country. 

 

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 06:22 | 6598445 Thick Willy
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I would never say that!  That would imply that blacks are capable of building some semblance of civilized society sufficient to constitute a nation.  Impossible!

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 07:15 | 6598478 AlfredNeumann
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You equate African blacks with American niggers.  big difference.

Perhaps you should get out of your fucking trailer and do some travelling and LEARN something instead of spewing myths.

 

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 08:10 | 6598527 Buster Cherry
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I'm curious, because the news dropped off the airwaves like a rock....

How's the Ebola epidemic going?  figure since you're the enlightened world traveller, you'd be in a position to know...

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 09:01 | 6598585 AlfredNeumann
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Do you know how large Africa is??  

Probably clueless like most of you imbeciles.

Just to give you a hint, dopey.

The entire lower 48 states could fit into the Sahara desert.

Yes, travelling the world educates a person.   Thats why dopes like you believe MYTHS,  because you NEVER travelled and yet you think you know everything, and are not interested in learning new things.

You are a LOSER

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 07:17 | 6598480 AlfredNeumann
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I asked you 2 simple questions last night.  You couldnt even answer them.

What are the official langauages of Mozambique and Equatorial Guinea.

Both beautiful places.   But how the fuck would you know?

Oh, and Google Durban South Africa Capetown and then Google  Windhoek , Namibia 

 

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 09:23 | 6598602 Miss Expectations
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I'm not understanding your point as Durban is Dutch, Capetown is English and Windhoek is German.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 09:33 | 6598610 falak pema
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In a sea of indigenous population.

Those who could sing like the Welsh : land of my fathers!

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 10:02 | 6598668 Miss Expectations
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Further...literally carved into a sea of indigenous populations.

How to I describe the African soul?  Can I use the words sweet and gentle and kind?  I found it to be so in Namibia.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 07:52 | 6598505 AlfredNeumann
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White knuckle dragging niggers like you aren't civilized by a long shot.  You are lowlife scum sons of bitches, thata all.

Trailer park trash and your craphole country is full of WIGGERS and NIGGERS.

And the dumbest mothefuckers of all are the Buybull thumping retards.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 08:07 | 6598522 Buster Cherry
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Just a fucking useless circus carney who can't put the cork back in the bottle...

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 08:35 | 6598547 Thick Willy
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He's a childless old man that ran off to the Netherlands because America wasn't Leftist enough for him.  He'll be dead within 10 years and forgotten, having accomplished nothing and had no impact on the world whatsoever.  If he was smart he'd take up a 20 something Muslim wife in the Netherlands and at least father a few mongrel children so his life would have had at least _some_ meaning.  But he's definitely not smart.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 08:58 | 6598579 AlfredNeumann
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Hey clownboy, I was BORN in the Netherlands.   Leftist?    LOL.  and you call me ''not smart''?

Listen up you fucking shithead,   I have NEVER taken unemployment or leeched off the govt like YOU do

I went to where the high paying jobs were, (not the USA).

I am debt free because I WORKED.  

Also, I have been to 73 countries and speak 4 languages.

Meanwhile, dipshits like you can't even speak correct English.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 11:38 | 6598925 FredFlintstone
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the USA trained you and we showed you a little work ethic and then you went back to europe to show em how to do it. you should be grateful for what we made of you

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 08:00 | 6598513 falak pema
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Ya know that on a chromatographic scale WHITE as a colour is always a mix of all OTHER colours.

White does not EXIST on its own. You have to understand science to understand that. You have to paint to SEE that if you make your own colours. In Michael Angelo's days they made white from mixing natural pigments of the three primary colours (red, yellow, blue).

And once you have understood that ya'll know that its projection in terms of ethnicity and "white is pure race BS" is just an optical ILLUSION.

You don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand that. All races had some melanin in their skins; more  in hot climates as the Sun's UV rays are a bitch and nature protects you with melanin.

Hitler thought otherwise but he was a low brow, hate breed idiosyncracy; a fall back to       neanderthal proto-homo-sapien.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 08:36 | 6598549 Thick Willy
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Why do you speak my language?  Why don't I speak your language?  Why have you been in my countries?  Why haven't I been in your country?  I ask you this all the time and yet you never answer.

You know why.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 08:53 | 6598570 falak pema
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I don't speak your language, you speak mine as English comes from French.

And French came from LAtin. And Latin came from Greek.

And Greek came from...

So learn a bit about evolution of cultural time lines. Its a moving finger of homo sapien life on Earth.

Ulysses visited many countries he invented Europe.

And, from an ethnic viewpoint you are in the Land of the Amerindians. They were there before you.

You know why... as I've posted this before. Unless you are blind of mind.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 08:40 | 6598554 chubbar
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Can you give an example of what combination of existing non-white races would breed to produce white babies?

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 10:38 | 6598564 falak pema
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since "White babies" talk is an ILLUSIONARY state as per my post, why would anybody reasonable want to produce a colour that does NOT EXIST, except in the mind of the delusional whose notions of logic are totally obscurantist ?

You are just displaying your notional prejudice based on an arbitrary yardstick.

The white race (invention BTW of colonial construct of the 19 th century --WHite Man's burden/Manifest Destiny  etc.) was called Caucasian in previous ethnic time lines. WHite man did not exist in literature as a race before the 19 th century!

Judeo christian also means that the ORIGINAL Christians, those on that Last Supper table, were all CIRCUMCISED men of Semitic origin. Not very Blond haired and blue eyed if you wanna look under the rug of their robes!

The true religion of the EUropean continent of its original tribes was all Pagan, not Judeochristian. So the original  "whites" were not judeochristians but pagans !

Makes the White-Christian model look like a retrofitted patchwork of Clockwork Orange tribal pathology.

What combination of white did THEY produce once invaded by the Barbarians of the East along with the Phyrgians before christianity and how did that evolve when the Arabs and Visigoths merged in Spain ?

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 10:45 | 6598763 rejected
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Yep,,, 21st Century!

Always race, Always!

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 13:08 | 6599269 Baron von Bud
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Your writing sounds much like the book "The History of White People". It's a terrible book of pseudo-science written by a retired, angry black female professor at an Ivy college. It's hateful and meant to disparage what we call 'white culture'. There's a lot to dislike about the murderous brutality of the old Europeans but that's the nature of empire and people who crave power. They were the neocons of another era.

I agree with you that Caucasion is the correct term not white. For example, many people in India are ethnically Caucasion even though they have darker skin. The 'yellow' people of China test higher than 'whites' on IQ tests for whatever that really measures. Sub-sahara blacks test at below 70 whereas 100 is called average. This is not the result of having black skin but more likely those discrete  populations being inbred for millennia. I agree that race doesn't really exist. People should be viewed as individuals and not clumped by color and labelled good and bad.

You have something to say that can add value here. Try to balance your writing to be more accurate and you'll start to get up arrows.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 16:54 | 6599780 falak pema
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TAlking about European culture is fine. Averroes and Avicenna contributed to it. They were Arabs or Moors.

In my opinion the notion of "white" culture is a MISNOMER.

You attribute culture to a regional population that had many ethnic origins and label it "white".

I would turn your own logic round and say you are practicing " pseudo-science" about an allegedly angry black female that you have "labelled" as "hateful". Purely your subjective opinion that is very derogative and cannot be discussed as its not "factual".

I talk about facts not about opinions. My own take is that the Caucasian race has an origin that covers a whole region including Syria and Turkey; precisely where the current refugees come from.

So labelling us Europeans as white and them refugees as Darkies is not the right yardstick. They are as much Caucasian of original tribe as we are.

Ethnicity is one thing. Culture is another. Today's population of New York, city of 8.5 Million is : 38% Caucasian, 24% Afroamerican; 28% Hispanic and the rest 20% Asiatic. This is said from memory so don't take me literally; its ball park.

The culture of New York is American but its population is multiracial.

Now nobody says that New York is the worst example of American culture. Its presented as the beacon of American Modernism to the whole world; the City that never sleeps. All the elites of Caucasian USA work there.

Wake up. EIther you say New York is a shit dump or you say its America.

Now which is it?

White Culture is a fantasy that did not exist except in the minds of racial supremacists. Like Rule Britannica under Queen Victoria who had a political purpose : White Man's Burden to justify COLONISATION OF WORLD. Just like the USA and Manifest Destiny against the Amerindian massacres.

You choose now. But don't say one thing and mean the opposite.

I don't. And mixing religion to region or ethnicity is another false flag. There are as many religious sects in Islam as there are in Christianity. And a lot of the Regional people in addition are secular and not religious fanatics.

Assimilating a regional population as darkie fanatics (jihadists) ALL, is what Hitler did to those whom he labelled as NON ARYANS.

We all live in a world that DESTROYED the third Reich and rightly so.

 

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 14:31 | 6599485 chubbar
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Look Falak, I just asked a fucking question based on what you said. I didn't know the answer, which is why I asked it. How the fuck am I "showing my notational prejudice based on an arbitrary yardstick" (whatever the fuck that actually means) by asking a question? 
I don't care if you call caucasians "white" or not. I'm just using the normal everyday labeling that has been used to depict//describe different races since I've been around. Christ, why don't you climb down from the ladder and relax. It's a fucking question, don't answer it if you can't be civil. I personally don't see how "whites" (caucasions, if you insist) get produced from people of color? Maybe it didn't happen that way? Wouldn't be the first time that written history was found to be bullshit.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 16:06 | 6599816 falak pema
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well you asked for black and white and you got technicolor.

Thats more than you bargained for!

For moar details look  below.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 09:47 | 6598637 Spiritof42
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If you pay close attention, what we call white skin is actually a light biege. Our skin is the primary source of Vitamin D. So it stands to reason that northern races have lighter skin for producing higher levels of Vitamin D to make of for the loss of sun exposure.

It's a shame that the public has been taught to be afraid of the sun when it is vital to our health. Vitamin D deficiency is extremely common and at the root of many health problems, including skin cancer.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 12:39 | 6599143 Baron von Bud
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You know nothing about art and pigment. White does indeed exist on its own. At the time of Michaelangelo, it was made from lead-white; a naturally occurring salt of lead. Also, the primary colors are magenta, yellow and cyan. There is a difference between prism colors and the saturated colors within paints. You cannot mix the primary hues and get white. In fact you get a grey. Artists use such colorful greys as shadow colors to add vibrancy to a painting. No you don't need to be a rocket scientist to understand color but it helps to have actually mixed color on a palette - something you clearly have never done.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 12:58 | 6599159 falak pema
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I am quoting Georgio Vasari. Pure white was very difficult to get; and the painters went to extremes to produce it during the Renaissance by other means in different shades of gray.

He remarks that the Genesis scene uses a lot of white and the mineral pigment was difficult to obtain in large quantities

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 08:29 | 6598544 ToSoft4Truth
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Go make children.  These white broads are hoes.  You could tag 10 by sundown if you try.

Bristol Palin is the role model.

LOL

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 05:49 | 6598417 Able Ape
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Washington, D.C. is the home of the Zionist Zombies - the truly walking dead who subsist on dollars fed to them by their Zionist masters....

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 07:35 | 6598460 falak pema
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PCR is suffering from ACUTE pains of penitence for have been ONE of those who ushered in the REAGANOMICS neo-con age that spawned the NWO and the "shock and awe" doctrine subsequently.

He can never forgive himself (like Dave Stockman), for having associated himself to such a neo-feudal and neo-fascist cabal (according to his own avowed terms) : the Neo-con "permanent war" hubristic mantra that this has spawned.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 10:39 | 6598736 rejected
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Reaganomics never really took off as it first requires a capitalist system to work which hasn't existed in many, many years. By the time any of it did get fired up Wile E. Clinton was in office to pull the plugs. It was the Glass Steagall repeal that completed the central banks 100 years of garnering complete control as Glass Steagall was a major blockage of the financialization we see today.

83% of con-gress voted to repeal it. 207 of those "conservative" Republicans and 154 of the progressive Democrats. And!  10 times the Democrats voted NAY compared to the freedom loving, America first, Republicans.

Yes, I imagine any ex-government office holder that has a conscious would dislike intensely what is happening in today's economy and government. But few ever express it in the way PCR does. His no holds barred writings boldly go where few pundits dare. Soon this type of exposing will be illegal in the land of the free so I applaud him and wish there were more like him. Of course, IMO.

 

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 07:07 | 6598471 blown income
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Common Core was designed to dumb down the serfs along the lines

 

Well , I will say this CC math is fucking complicated....my daughter is in 4th grade and she aces the math...

 

Me , I have a hard time with it..go figure...

 

-debt slave

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 08:44 | 6598560 chubbar
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That's the point, it replaces logic (which is easy to remember/figure out) with a series of steps that are not logical or linear to arrive at the correct answer. It pretty much guarantees that the ability to do advanced math is never mastered by a lot of students. I saw a teacher showing something like 77 steps to do a simple equation. She was demonstrating the insanity of the CC curriculum but I don't have a link to that presentation. 

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 07:36 | 6598492 viator
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Quote Marxist Noam Chomsky, now there's a guy who knows what's up. He is a one trick anti-capitalist pony.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 07:50 | 6598504 sam site
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The offshoring of US jobs was encouraged by the enormous excessive costs burdoning our labor costs.

Economist Peter Schiff says regulations and taxes account for the bulk of these excessive costs and not the wage differential as everyone focuses on.

Someday Americans will be able to vastly reduce regulations, taxes and compete again and costs will be trimmed so much that the cost of shipping will be the chief deterrent keeping out foreign exports.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 12:49 | 6599178 rejected
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The giving away of u.s manufacturing was encouraged by profit and management bonuses,,, as a result of changes to the u.s tax structure to align with signed trade treaties that allowed a firm to go out of country,,, hire labor at slave wages,,, then import the goods without being taxed (Tariffs). Many times the USG (taxpayer) would actually fund these transfers.

The ideology behind this was/is the politically correct fairness doctrine that decrees it unfair for one country to have so much with other countries so little. One could say it was a sort of international affirmative action. The only way to bring some up is to take many down. Who / How / and Why does not matter.

The USG losing it's tax base is the primary reason for the failure of many social programs and the Central Bank printing / ZIRP and other unlawful practices. At present the USG and Central Bank finds this situation as a plus for them. With so many on government handouts any sort of resistance is muted.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 08:01 | 6598515 Republi-Ken
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HEY PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS,

WHAT EXACTLY IS THE ECONOMIC SYSTEM

--ALTERNATIVE--

FOR RUSSIA AND CHINA???

PURE LAISSEZ FAIRE CAPITALISM?

NO DEBT ISSUED?

COMMUNISM?

STATE RUN STOCK MARKETS?

ISLAMIC NO INTEREST FINANCING?



 

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 08:53 | 6598571 AlfredNeumann
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Go back to the USA system of usury laws and Glass Steagall.

 

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 08:42 | 6598558 ajkreider
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The Sino-Russophillia on this board continues to escape me. Just like Venezuela, their economic success is built on other countries buying their stuff. You know, those established rich nominally capitalist nations supposedly going down the tubes.

P.S. Of the U.S., China, Venezuela, and Russia, which country has NOT tried to extend its internationally recognized borders in the past year?

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 12:17 | 6599051 PoasterToaster
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This love of the US Oligarchs and their "government" can be found in any place where people do not question their masters.  There are many places like that on the internet and in real life.  This is one of the few places where people question that whole notion.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 12:33 | 6599115 rejected
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Which of those countries is bombing the shit out of ME nations against internationally recognized law.

Which of those countries funded a recent regime change with billions of your tax dollars?

Which of those nations is arming and funding terrorists throughout the world,,, calling them "freedom fighters"?

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 09:15 | 6598594 Batman11
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In saner times, when demand was recognised as the driver of the economy, the US consumer was seen as the engine of the global economy.

With growing inequality, the US consumer has seen real wages stagnate since the 1970s. His consumption was maintained, first with debt, and then the illusion of wealth due to a house price bubble. He used his ever increasing house price as an ATM to borrow against to maintain consumption.

In 2008 things changed, the US consumer was maxed out on debt and his house was falling in price.

The once wealthy Western consumers have all had a similar experience.

Demand for Chinese products collapsed and China tried to keep things going with debt, hoping the West would soon be back on its feet.

With supply side economic theory being the order of the day, all the help has been put in at the top with nothing trickling down, because it doesn’t.

Capitalism trickles up though the following mechanism:

a) Those with excess capital invest it and collect interest, dividends and rent.

b) Those with insufficient capital borrow money and pay interest and rent.

With almost no welfare state in China its consumers constantly have to save for a rainy day, limiting their own consumption.

The world’s belief in supply side economics and trickle down is exactly the opposite of how Capitalism actually works, its demand driven and money trickles up.

Prepare for more solutions based on the opposite of how Capitalism actually works.

QE puts money in at the top, where it stays, blowing asset bubbles.

 

Neo-Liberal economics is totally upside down and can never provide successful solutions.

 

 

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 09:20 | 6598597 Batman11
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"But trickle down, supply side economics means lower taxes for me" US billionaire.

It isn't going to change.

 

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 09:57 | 6598657 Flankspeed60
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I get PC Roberts anti-US govt. stance - I'm there with him. But the implication that China and Russia are mere peace seekers at risk of falling victim to US hegemony is absurd. ANY and EVERY nation CAPABLE of imposing its will - will. The success of hegemony is dependent upon the degree to which a country's leaders are willing to impoverish its citizens in order to achieve it. By that metric, the U.S. has been an unqualified success.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 10:13 | 6598688 Azannoth
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There is a fundamental difference in approach between the West and East(Russia included) while the West is generally very upfront about it's current views and opinions and has little trouble articulating them at every opportunity the East is a lot more veiled and subdued it holds its card close the the chest and never overreacts until it has hit it's breaking point .. and then all bets are off as to the consequences. Washington and the EU might be very arrogant now but when their hubris hits on the breaking point of Russia/China they will sorely regret it. And I think we are not very far off from that point especially if another arrogant blubbering fool gets elected into the WH in 2016 we might see a dramatic shift in relations.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 10:17 | 6598689 TheObsoleteMan
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Mr. Roberts is correct in many of his insights, but fails to mention "the two Americas". There is a country within a country. Take Naples, Florida for example, about sixty miles down I-75 from me. No crumbling infrastructure there! No shit schools, no young women {residents} willing to whore themselves out. Every other car is a brand new Mercedes with a sprinkling of Ferrari's, Porsche's and even an occasional Bentley and Rolls. Crime is VERY low. Private banks abound. Gated communities everywhere, complete with there own private security {actually, more like a quasi police force}. But just a short drive to the east is a community know as Golden Gate. This is where "the help" lives. Full of Mexicans and Haitians. Crime is high, and the schools are shit. Infrastructure isn't bad {yet} because it is all fairly new, less than twenty years old. Much of the entire state looks like this. It depends where you are. In this perspective, it is easy to notice the demise of the middle class. You either have one end of the spectrum or another.  

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 11:33 | 6598910 Eddielaidler
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Ohio is the same. The older urban areas are a mess. The rest of the areas are either old rural areas where people take care of it or bedroom communities with good planning. The roads are great except where they pass through cities. The schools are great except in the cities where the government has pumped money into the black hole of education. What is the common denominator? The urban plantations where the federal government has it's tentacles firmly implanted into the voting populace.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 12:10 | 6598981 JD59
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Cleveland, Oh is a communist Democrat strong hold, with s h i t infrastucture, failing schools, bad roads, high democrat crime & murder rate, and a dependent democrat dieing tax base. You go out to the suburbs, Independence, Brecskville, Solon, you see low to no crime, working class Americans, excellent schools, good infrastructure and a sustainable tax base.

 

Anywhere in this country where the Democrats are in control, you will see massive crime, massive debt, & massive communist democrat policies that fail, fail, fail, fail, fail!

 

The democrat party is the party of death, crime, slavery for votes, dependence, & FAILURE UTOPIA!

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 12:13 | 6599038 FredFlintstone
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busing accelerated flight to the burbs

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 12:25 | 6599087 rejected
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One things for sure,,, one can plot the degradation of schools from that period onward. All colors.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 14:47 | 6599529 BlussMann
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Is your use of  "Democrat" a code word for Negro ? Like, "Detroit's failure is the fault of the 'Democrats'" ? (A favorite Republican Cuckservative meme).

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 11:48 | 6598961 DavyRoySixPack
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I grew up in Naples. My moms family has been there since 1926. I moved away and so has a lot of the extended family. Naples, highlights the zombification of america. 

 

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 12:20 | 6599064 rejected
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Who hires this "help" at almost starvation wages?

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 10:36 | 6598701 ThrowAwayYourTV
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When I started hearing all the "Obama is the Anti Christ" stuff I just figured it was a bunch of Hogwash.

But lately with all the things going on in the world since his election I've been considering it.

Who would make a perfect anti Christ other than a mussie?

And what more powerful position for an anti Christ than to be the leader of the most powerful nation on the planet?

 

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 12:13 | 6599036 PoasterToaster
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Who would make a perfect anti Christ other than a mussie?

A "Christian".

God hates religion.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 10:30 | 6598723 The Most Intere...
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Wrong, wrong, wrong wrong, wrong!!!!

Paul Craig Roberts is an Idiot Socialist Savant.  Free trade, deregulation, privatization, let's just call it Capitalism, are not the problems.  Shove your book, 

The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West

and your references to neoliberalism up your ass.  Mr. Roberts was a Statist, is a Statist and will always be a Statist.  Gee whiz Bullwinkle, if we just had the right people in government we would be so much better off...  Did you miss the complete failure and dissolution of the Soviet Union?  1991 pin head.  The problem is government you fucking moron.

Milton Churchill

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 10:31 | 6598724 Son of Captain Nemo
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Translation and all you need to realize after reading this:

"9/11" redux!

It's all they have left before we start turning on them for not being able to make our car and mortgage payments let alone our season football tickets!

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 10:32 | 6598725 SandDab
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My 91 year-old Grandfather flew P38s in WW2.  In 1932, his mother told him that the Communists had infiltrated the US Government.  Family is directly descended from Thurston Bassett, nephew of William the Conqueror and grandson of Rollo the Norman.  Family has been in the US since the 1600s via removal from Wales by team Cromwell and William of Orange.  The people that forced us and other unwanted Europeans into America were Netherlands' Edomites who had previously resided in Spain.  Research shows that before Spain, the Edomites were placed in power in Israel by Rome for sizeable donations from Antipator, who was King Herod's dad, a descendant of Esau.  After Rome destroyed Israel in 70AD, the Edomites made Spain home.  Cain (bloodline of Rome) and Esau (bloodline of those who wish they were Judahites), after the family fight, renewed their quest for world domination throughout the Dark Ages.

Today, these people control every government in the world.  Nothing we see is real, but is rather a mechanism of Hegelian Dialectic.  These people are above nationalitity and have no regard for life, just power.  Bible is the oldest source that says that says this is true.  Sabbatean Frankists, Marxists, Jesuits, Bolsheviks, Communists - all of them were the same people with the same coordinated quest.  These are the "Secret Society" guys.  Incidentally, these people believe that they are directly descended from Enki (aka Satan), the Sumerian Prince god; whereas, the rest of us are lesser, via the bloodline of Adam and Eve.  The God of the Old and New Testament is the sumerian God Enlil, later known as Zeus, then Jahova (and other names for other languages/cultures).  Most of the real Isaelites (and Judahites) were outside the borders of Israel way before 1,700 BC.

If your family arrived in the US a while back, you're most-likely a descendant of the Tribe of Dan or Judah and are prophesied to play a big part in the destruction of the New World Order.  Dan are the Seleucids, Greeks, Trojans, Carthaginians, Sardinians, Scandinavians, Vikings, Normans and AMERICANS.  We are also in South America, New Zealand and Australia.  It's ALWAYS been about the battle with Rome.  In BC times, the real Judahites traveled with Dan (the Sea Warriors) and had been dispersed to 'safe places' like Denmark, Ireland, Russia and Japan.  More and more websites plead, "WAKE UP DAN!"

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 10:45 | 6598768 dizzyfingers
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Hubris seeks out and sticks to those who think they know it all.

Mon, 09/28/2015 - 16:21 | 6603497 SandDab
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Your comment came after mine, sorry to offend if it was meant for me.  Was actually trying to get others to research their geneology.  We're all related to royalty at some point in history and for some, finding identity might help them deal with the shitstorm that appears to be coming.  Through researching my own, found that we were assigned to 'protect the crown.'  Apparently my ancestors failed, so I have no pride in that.  I'm also aware that my Grandfather fought on the side of the NWO, another bummer.  From my point of view, my family has been cursed for the last 1,000 years. 

 

As for me, went to UCLA and UCI's MBA, but burned out on the investment banking scene only six months after graduating.  Tried a few more jobs after, but couldn't cope with people.  Wasn't socialized as a kid very well.  Also, I became alcoholic at 15, probably because of the physical abuse from my old man and the mental abuse from my Histrionics Disorder Mother.  Quite the alcohol problem after I prayed to God the first time at age 26.  It started up a few more times, but quite for good (I hope) about 11 years ago and have been living in remote mountains for the last 8.  Don't have a TV or people, so spend my time reading - 8 years worth.  You see, lost my only son in 2007 and needed a way to find God to survive (Was raised Atheist).  Heard there were 3 ways to find God: 1. Reading Scripture  2. Personal teaching from a Master  3.  Through Truth, or Conspiracy Theory.

 

Scripture doesn't work for me and it's unlikely someone would have ever sought me out to show me God.  Therefore, I read Conspiracy Theory.  Everything I wrote is written somewhere else and is therefore, not my own.  The only talent I have is weaving independent theories together to form 1 continuous story.  I can recite a version of history that overlaps the one we know, and can do it going back to 4,000 BC.  It's a trip.  Don't know if everything I say is accurate or not, but it is written.  Either way, found God and maybe others can too.  Again, sorry if I nauseated you - will try a different approach next time.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 10:56 | 6598796 Batman11
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"Wolfowitz Doctrine states that Washington’s principal objective is to prevent the rise of countries that could be sufficiently powerful to resist American hegemony"

Was Wolfowitz asleep when Western manufacturers outsourced everything to China creating the next super power.

Work shop of the world and super power

1800s - UK

1900s - US

2000s - China


Sun, 09/27/2015 - 11:00 | 6598807 Batman11
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If the Russians and Chinese are not psychopaths they can learn from their mistakes.

We have a problem with Western elites.

 

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 11:01 | 6598815 Batman11
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"We will solve every problem with loose monetary policy"

"But it never works"

"Never mind, carry on" psychopathic Western elite

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 11:20 | 6598872 ThrowAwayYourTV
Sun, 09/27/2015 - 11:21 | 6598878 Demdere
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https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/09/15/measures-of-propagandas-ef...

People have no idea how much of what is in their head is there because propagand put it there.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 12:04 | 6598923 JD59
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This is what you get when the communist Democrats & the CFR want to dominate control over the working class of Americans and import dependent illegals from south of the border, or illegals from the middle east so that they can vote communist democrats into power. It is all to dilute the voting block of conservative Americans, so that a one world government can take control 20, to 30 years in to the future.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 11:42 | 6598938 DavyRoySixPack
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I am guessing about that photo. But, I am thinking it is probably an heirloom painting of a family relation "Roberts" officer of some rank.

 

Just a guess though

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 11:51 | 6598971 PoasterToaster
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It's shitty that the US Government and its owners see the independent foreign policies of these other governments as a threat.  What's worse is that they see independence in the people of America as an even bigger threat.

The owners of the US think they also own the world.  Their ownership should be canceled.

Sun, 09/27/2015 - 12:11 | 6599030 Multivariate Man
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Governments exist to serve the governing and this has always been so.  The historical evidence supporting the idea that governments add to aggregate civilian well-being is spotty and rare.  Governments don't work well at best and degrade over longer time frames.  Today, as always, it's good to be king or be in the court and in these times the king and the financial industry are one.  Nothing will ever change except the names until human nature changes...the same as it ever was. 

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