September 11 – Eleven Years Later (Selected Statistics)

By Mark McHugh from Across the Street

September 11 – Eleven Years Later (Selected Statistics)

On the anniversary of the most emotional day in our collective memory, I present the following statistics, prepared to the best of my ability, in the interest of truth, justice and the American way:

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[Blizzard_Esq]

You already are. 

[takeaction]

A great video...please share...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuC_4mGTs98

[Schiff hits the fan]

Obama's Warning to Bernanke

tune: 'Pushit' - Tool  (lyrics modified)

Saw the polls again today,

While I’m still begging for QE3.

Take care not to ignore my instructions,

Cause if you do we both may disappear.

I will choke the economy before I give in…

Make this country kneel before me.

Who cares about Peter Schiff’s predictions,

Who are you to judge and strike my ideas down?

But you’re ignoring me, and shitting on me.

Ignoring me, and shitting on me.

Ignoring me, and shitting on me.

Ignoring me, and shitting on me.

Just print it Ben, FUCK THEM BEN

Just print it Ben, FUCK THEM BEN

Just print it Ben, FUCK THEM BEN

Just print it Ben, FUCK THEM BEN

YOU STILL WORK FOR ME, YOU FUCKING APPOINTEE.

REMEMBER THAT, BEFORE YOU SHIT ON ME.

YOU WORK FOR ME, YOU BALD MONKEY.

DON’T SHIT ON ME, DON’T SHIT ON ME.

Rest your career on my shoulders

Bang my drum until November

Better take care not to make me angry

Cause If I do you may just disappear.

But you’re ignoring me, shitting on me, bucking me, shitting on me, fucking me, shitting on me

We need QE3, quit questioning me.

You work for me, quit shitting on me, launch QE3, quit shitting on me. Just Print it Ben, fuck ‘em good Ben.

You don’t have a spine, now fall in line.

Yeeeaaah

Slipping back into recession again.

The economy’s only alive when you’re printing money

Alive when you’re artificially holding rates down

I’ll trade a little inflation

for just another

Four More Years.

YOU’RE SHITTING ON ME, YOU’RE SHITTING ON ME.

YOU’RE SHITTING ON ME, YOU’RE SHITTING ON ME

You’re pushing and shoving

While I’m scrambling

Just to keep my fucking job.

I don’t want to be a community organizer again,

Don’t do me like Greenspan did George Bush in ’92, 

Or I’ll make sure you never work again my friend.

Saw the job numbers again today,

You should be begging me to stay.

We managed to spin the numbers away,

But, you, I just can’t defend my dear…

If when I say I’ll replace you in Januaaaary,

You hurt my credibility anywaaaaaay,

Would that persuade you to see things another waaaaaaaay?

Print, Lie, Repeat.  Print, Lie, Repeat.

There’s no love in TRUTH.

Staring at the polls again,

Market CRASHING down again,

Survival is our only friend.

TERRRIFY them of what may come.

Remember,

We can always print more money.

Or I’ll throw your fucking job away.

IT WILL END NO OTHER WAY!

IT WILL END NO OTHER WAY!

[SanOvaBeach]

Your a poet and everyone knows it.

[Abiotic Oil]

2001... The good ol' days when an oz. of cannabis was worth more than an oz. of gold.

[I am a Man I am...]

America=> Fuck Yeah!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWS-FoXbjVI

[Winston Smith 2009]

"Afghanistan, bitchez!"

I'm sure that the vast majority of their $2.46 billion GDP is from the US money being spent there which was $8 billion per month just for the US military in 2011.  The rest is probably from the opium trade.

When the US eventually leaves, Afghanistan will return to what it has always been no matter who has tried to change it.  What a fantastic investment for the US taxpayer.

[LMAOLORI]

Peace Prize president should bring them home

U.S. Military Deaths in Afghanistan More Than Doubled Under Obama

THE 'GOOD' WAR DYING FOR NOTHING IN AFGHANISTAN?

[frenzic]

China stepping to the plate. Funny thing is US basically footed that bill already.

[Cathartes Aura]

.

When the US eventually leaves, Afghanistan will return to what it has always been no matter who has tried to change it.  What a fantastic investment for the US taxpayer.

the "US" isn't going anywhere, not as long as there are massive profits to be made.

Afghanistan doesn’t export opium paste anymore.

Key Americans, many elected officials, some military, aided by foreign intelligence services, India, Britain, Canada and Germany have built the world’s heroin processing industry there.

Shipping is handled by the Northern  Alliance, for the local market, Afghanistan is a nation of addicts now, and the massive Russian market.

Europe is handled out of two bases, Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo, where the US flies heroin and turns it over to the Kosovo/Albanian mafia for distribution and to Belgium, where it is distributed for Northern Europe.

Much goes directly to the United States via long range drones of the private air force of CIA contracting companies, shipped as “rendition prisoners.”

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/09/02/breaking-afghanistan-americas-to...

[MassDecep]

Heroin Bitchez!!!

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/09/02/breaking-afghanistan-americas-total-lie-war/

[SemperFord]

This is depressing, let's go back three more years to 1998 and .98 cent gas, good times :)

[pods]

And whore pants were in style.  

Betcha even Michelle's behind would look good in a pair of them.

pods

[dugorama]

Ah yes, the Clinton administration.  Remind me why we think 8  years of peace and prosperity were so awful?  Oh yeah, he had consensual sex, that's right..........

[SemperFord]

I agree with this comment because you have to figure if you have this much hate for mankind to want to see everybody suffer it's probab;y because you have no play and don't know how to make love to women! Most black people I know, say he was the first black president and don't count Obama!

[Mary Wilbur]

It was Toni Morrison who called Clinton the "first black president."

[Henry Hub]

Actually Clinton was the best Republican president the country ever had.

[hannah]

clinton allowed just as big of an attack on the usa....nafta. 12 million illegals flooding the usa. what has that cost the economy.

[Cathartes Aura]

and then Bush went to work on the Security and Prosperity Partnership. . .

The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) was a region-level dialogue with the stated purpose of providing greater cooperation on security and economic issues.^[1] The Partnership was founded in Waco, Texas on March 23, 2005 by Paul Martin, Prime Minister of Canada, Vicente Fox, President of Mexico, and George W. Bush, President of the United States.[1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_and_Prosperity_Partnership_of_Nort...

because every prezzydent has the same agenda, no?

one world.

[Clashfan]

Bush 41 set up NAFTA. Clinton, his crime team buddy, signed it.

Bushmonkey set up the bankster bailouts and pushed through the first one, but I'llbombya continued it.

[Ness.]

The big 'Slick Willy' Clinton legacy nobody seems to talk about anymore...

NASDAQ March 2000 - 5048

NASDAQ Oct 2001 - 1458

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[nmewn]

Great time to be short ;-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFmv22ghzQw

[Ness.]

Loved that song.  Much Thx for the memories.  Whew.. that song wounldn't get much airtime today.  

Can't wait for the HoloNewman concerts (when he dies, of course).

[juwes]

To catch gas or food the Dow will have to inflate to 20,000.  Time to buy.

[Dapper Dan]

Old Slick new knew to wield a good Cuban ; )

[El Tuco]

Good times...Good times....

[jmc8888]

Got as low as 79 cents here in Phx (that I'm aware of).

[Shameful]

Damn where can I buy beef for $1.83 a lb?!?!  With those big price increases makes the claim of 29% inflation a little silly.

Also seems Afghanistan is downright on it's feet comparatively speaking, so why don't we GTFO?

[ParkAveFlasher]

Because our economy has a heroin addiction, and the only cure is more Afghan poppy.

[johnQpublic]

you can still get ground beef for 2 bucks a pound at wegmans

dry aged beef will set you back 30 bucks a pound

[moonman]

That's Barney Franks beef your getting for $2 a lb

[Henry Hub]

You can get pink slime for a lot less

[mark mchugh]

Hi Shameful,

Haven't seen you much lately.  Here's links to most of the stats:

http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&met_y=ny_gdp_mktp_cd&idim=country:AFG&dl=en&hl=en&q=afghanistan+gdp

http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&met_y=ny_gdp_mktp_cd&idim=country:IRQ&dl=en&hl=en&q=iraq+gdp

http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&met_y=ny_gdp_mktp_cd&idim=country:SAU&dl=en&hl=en&q=saudi+arabia+gdp

http://www.indexmundi.com/commodities/?commodity=energy-price-index&months=180

http://www.indexmundi.com/commodities/?commodity=rice&months=180

http://www.indexmundi.com/commodities/?commodity=corn&months=180

http://www.indexmundi.com/commodities/?commodity=beef&months=180

http://www.indexmundi.com/commodities/?commodity=food-price-index&months=180

http://www.lbma.org.uk/pages/index.cfm?page_id=46&title=current_stat

http://www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/hist/rngc1d.htm

http://www.eia.gov/petroleum/gasdiesel/xls/pswrgvwall.xls

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?id=U6RATE#istics

http://www.indexmundi.com/commodities/?commodity=beef&months=180

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/us_20th_century_chart.html

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?id=WILL5000PRFC#

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?id=SP500#

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?id=SPCS20RNSA#

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/DJIA

http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield

http://www.freddiemac.com/pmms/docs/30-yr_historics.xls

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?id=CEU0500000008#

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?id=FEDFUNDS#

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?id=INTDSRUSM193N#

[The Wizard of Oz]

GEORGE BUSH/BARACK OBAMA BITCHEZ!!!

[reader2010]

It was internally called the New Pearl Harbor.

[el Gallinazo]

Yeah, over three years before it happened.

[Zola]

What a sad picture of failure... Osama must be laughing in his grave

[Winston Churchill]

Which one ?

[Inibo E. Exibo]

Which Osama or which grave?

[A Lunatic]

He's got a fucking McMansion in the Hamptons.

[q99x2]

Heroin has a higher return than Gold or Silver

[camaro68ss]

its one of the main Ingredients in hopium.

Just if you were wondering

[ParkAveFlasher]

Yeah, but you can't eat heroin.

[kaiserhoff]

A little rich for my blood, but you could invest in sheep dip;)

[Metalredneck]

It does suppress the appetite.

[Scalaris]

Educative war receipt.

Only thing missing, is the total number of human casualties, for this charade, as well as the total change in % profits, for military contractors.

[Induced Coma]

I'd like someone to point to one initiative that is really working well. Every government run, big business run, bank run (pardon the pun) project is so far off the rails there is no coming back.  Anyone thinking there is a positive outcome to this mess must be so high on hopium that they'll OD before this is over.

[Clashfan]

Of course, if the plan is failure, things are going very well.

[darteaus]

Number of Islamofascist countries:

1     Iran

5+   Iran, Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Sudan, ?

       Dishonorable mention: Pakistan, Dearborn

[_SILENCER]

It's what these goddamn criminals do, shit all over the world, herd the sheeple into fighting their wars, scoop up large profits, giggle at the blood, then do it all over again.  Motherfuckers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br9OpiENQMA

[A Lunatic]

The leadership of this country is no better than that of Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot or any other murderer of innocents throughout history. Worse in fact..........by far.

[Roland99]

one would think our debt load has funded Iraq's, Afghanistan's, and Saudi Arabia's GDP growth.

and one would pretty much be dead on, too!

[Agent P]

US Debt +178%....US GDP +48%....obviously we need more debt!

[MillionDollarBogus_]

You forgot the Baltic Dry Index, which is at  666 today......

That evil omen is a warning...

The worldwide shipping unemployment line is getting ever bigger... 

What recovery...???

[Overfed]

Holy crap! That wasn't sarcasm at all. D'oh! Yer not the real MDB.

[MillionDollarBogus_]

Overfed,

I am trying to give MillionDollarBonus_ a better image....

Trying to un-troll a troll.....

Right a wrong...

That sort of thing...

[FoxMulder]

You can't triple-stamp a double-stamp.

[Rainman]

OBL is alive and GM is dead....and everything else is upside down too.

[wagthetails]

wow..based on the results....the US should declare war on itself! 

[Crabshacker]

I truly believe it has ...

[Abiotic Oil]

1.5 billion rounds of hollow point .40 S&W says, "Yes We Can!"

[Parrotile]

No doubt people here will correct me if I'm wrong on this, but I seem to remember that HP rounds are outlawed under the Geneva Convention for use against enemy combatants, but are not banned for use against insurgents / terrorists?

Seems the US Agencies (everyhting from the National Weather Service through to Social Services) are planning for a fairly massive "terrorist invasion".

Or is the President and his Men going to be changing the definition of terrorist to allow a substantially wider net to be cast??

Maybe all the Conspiracy Theorists might be not so crazy after all - this ammunition has a very substantial stopping performance, and with around 5 rounds for every man, woman and child in the Continental US of A, there must be a reason behind all this, mustn't there??

[Fecklesslackey]

Can we just get to 101% of GDP in government spending and get it over

[GlomarHabu]

I believe many hsitorians said it would be a world changing event.

I was in Montana, hiking in Yellowstone. The summer crowds gone. I didn't hear about it until we returned to the trailhead and didn't see the pictures on TV until later that night. Having worked in the World Financial Center and been to the top of the towers I was ... well I don't have the words.

I called an old CIA buddy. He couldn't talk but said just two words, Bin Laden.

The picture of the jumping man still haunts me.

[r00t61]

I wonder if Iranian citizens were haunted by the sight of their democratically-elected government being overthrown by the CIA in 1953.

[IrritableBowels]

 fucktard.

[Clashfan]

Maybe he said two other words: "Inside Job?"

[kito]

im so confused...i am told al quaeeeeda caused this horrific act, that they are the enemy terrorists..........but...but..now they are our allies???.....we are arming them to overthrow our new enemy, the syrian dictator???????.......i cant keep up with the brainwashing..............

we are at war with eurasia..........we have always been at war with eurasia..................

[Colonel Klink]

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle the with bullshit.

Hope that clears things up.

[Boilermaker]

Wow, you used the day of rememberence of a horrific event as a platform for anti-Amerikkka bullshit.

Honestly, that's sleazy.

[dwdollar]

Facts are sleazy?

[exi1ed0ne]

"Truth is treason in the empire of lies" - Ron Paul

[Boilermaker]

Nope. Mixing it with a tradgedy in a red-meat- for-the retards article is just shit. Wait...I'm an accomplice now to murder.

[Critical Path]

Your government was making plans to seize the day not long after 2 buildings in lower manhattan came down.  Now THATS sleazy!  You want to show your rememberance, pull your head out of your ass.  You sir, are a moron.

[Boilermaker]

Is this were ZH is now? Really? This is the fringe ape shit persons flocking here?

Wow. Just wow.

[Clashfan]

Yep, Boiler. I'm another one. So don't let the door....

[NotApplicable]

Well, given that this entire event was created in order that this "day of rememberence" have meaning, I'd say that "sleazy" is anyone who GLORIFIES IT, JUST AS THE ATTACKERS INTENDED.

This is all about state worship, and nothing else.

[Boilermaker]

For fuck sake...really?

[Colonel Klink]

You should just shorten your name to BOIL, which you seem to be on the ass of ZH.

God for fucks sake, I'm glad he didn't use July 4th, because no one remembers that day either.

Get real.....douche!

[Boilermaker]

Huh?

[kito]

@boilermaker-------protesting the fact that our country is being manipulated by our own government to believe that our liberties need to be stripped in the name of saving the populace from the al queeeeda terrrrristts, all the while that same disingenuous government.......who is supposed to be of the people, by the people, for the people.......works back door deals and ARMS THE VERY SAME GROUP for a new cause.........THE SAME GROUP that brought down the twin towers, the SAME GROUP that our government rants about year after year.........that is NOT ANTI AMERIKKA BULLSHIT............go ask a family member who lost somebody on 9-11 how they feel about our government supporting and arming the very same terrorists who killed their loved one?????? you, boilermaker, are a blind fucking jackass........................

[centerline]

Rant on Kito.  It is all such bullshit at this point.

[Boilermaker]

It sure is. Which is why simply piling on more fucking ridiculous bullshit isn't really helpful.

[kito]

whats helpful boilermaker? sucking it up like a good citizen on 9-11 and listening to obamney shed their crocodile tears while they are busy backstabbing the country with their new found al qaeda alliance. i cant stomach listening to their sickening speeches how they have made this country safer while gutting our constitutional rights.......so the question is................are YOU fucking kidding me?? 

[Boilermaker]

Sorry, I don't really translate bat-shit crazy that well. Can you give it a try in good old English?

[Clashfan]

Try this: 911 was an inside job. Evidence is overwhelming.

[samsara]

Suggestion,  Stop posting.

[Boilermaker]

I'll just make it crazy as fuck and fit in. Evidently, the crazier the better.

[Mr Pink]

ANYONE who was involved , is complacent, or perpetuates the the 9/11 fairytale is an ACCOMPLICE to MURDER. PERIOD

[Mr Pink]

its funny that I posted the same comment on yahoo and recieved thumbs down and someone said Im guilty of treason for spreading conspiracy theories....now that I think about it...its not funny at all...

[andyupnorth]

Yahoo is freaking me out!  There are thousands of post under a single article where they are all cheering for the pre-emptive attack on Iran.

I even received a death threat (funny, the dude was accusing me of being muslim) just for posting the following (I also got nothing but thumbs down):

The US has drones assassinating people all over the world, they have a history of dropping nuclear bombs, napalm, land mines, and lots of other goodies for the past 80 years, and has military bases, guns, tanks, fighter jets and killer helicopters in nearly every country in the world, whereas Iran hasn't invaded anyone for over 2,000 years, and yet it's somehow Iran that's a threat to global peace.  Very Orwellian!

[Mr Pink]

If you ever start thinking that this country has a chance read the yahoo boards for twenty minutes.......you will realize we are fucked

[Clashfan]

Years ago I was on AOL chat, and it was the same way.

Most of the thinking folks have long given up on Yahoo comments. All that's left are idiots and .gov paid folks.

Why bother?

[Pool Shark]

I agree that anyone who was 'complicit' is an accomplice to murder.

Myself; I'm just kinda complacent...

[Mr Pink]

No....I said COMPLACENT. As in satisfied , content, or unconcerned in the "official story". Anyone "complicit" would also be an accomplice but this was MY post, not yours, asshole

[Oldrepublic]

chomsky, cockburn,zinn,amy goodman

[Clashfan]

I've taught Chomsky and loved many of his works.

His outright bullshit on JFK and 911 is heartbreaking, but it is what it is.

I did not know about Zinn or Cockburn. Oh well. It's a hard line, but those who deny 911 truth--and who have the intelligence of those folks--are clearly complicit in the coverup. It cannot be denied. There is no other possible explanation.

[Boilermaker]

Jesus Fucking Christ...what kind of fucktards are here now.

[Colonel Klink]

You!

[Boilermaker]

Yes, yes, yes....I know. It's me. The ignorant, senseless, moronic mobbing kind of tipped me off.

[Clashfan]

Now that you've figured it out, go the fuck somewhere else.

[bunnyswanson]

What is your problem?  1200 INNOCENT PEOPLE FELL 1/4 MILE TO THE EARTH THAT DAY.  Money was made hand over fist because of 9-11.  If you don't have a problem with that, get off the goddam thread.

[Bay of Pigs]

Boilermaker,

He did nothing of the sort. I used to think you had a pretty good grip on things. Looks like you're just another brainwashed douchebag.

[Boilermaker]

He did indeed mix two very different subjects. Tying September 11th with this article is terribly sensationalized bullshit.

I don't disagree with the data, at all. And, I don't disagree that we are in a horribly fucked up state of affairs.

But, mixing it with September 11th ON September 11th? Come on....that's fucking ridiculous.

[kito]

9-11 was a watershed moment...the ultimate crisis that couldnt be wasted...and since that day, boilermaker, things have really taken a turn for the worse, from a liberty and economic standpoint.....and 9-11 was the impetus................so, boilerplate, um, sorry, boilermaker, the point of the article was to demonstrate that our government hasnt done much to demonstrate truth, justice or the american way since 9-11........................................the ones who are spewing sensationalized bullshit are the government leaders who could give a crap about the people who lost their lives on 9-11................take issue with them.....................oh and i recall you being in the car industry, you must have been real fucking proud when the big three appealed to our american way post 9-11 by offering zero percent financing and no money down to keep the "american way" moving forward........naaah, that wasnt sensationalistic............................

[Boilermaker]

Surely, there's a way to get the Chevy Volt intertwined into this fucking mess of an attempt at a coherent point.

[kito]

I'm getting the sense you aren't getting it.....

[LibertyForSome]

Contrary to popular belief:

objective, rational thinking > kool-aid patriotism

[zerotohero]

Fine to remember but for fucks sake lets stop wallowing in our own self pity its weak and unproductive.

[akak]

Hear Hear!

[Boilermaker]

Who is wallowing? It's just jumping the shark in the worst way.

The twin towers in the background image of a table of inflation stats?? Give me a fucking break. That's clearly meant to get the ignorant fucks all jazzed up. I guess it worked. So, from that point it's a success.

[Yardfarmer]

...the day of dissemblance. yes, America did attack itself.

[Boilermaker]

Amerikkka!!!!

[GlomarHabu]

Boilermaker

Forget trying to use reason,logic, history or compassion plus a few more. There is apparently a faction on this site that hates the USA, will never give it credit for the good it has done in this world.

Pity them, pity the hatred they allow to erode them internally for that is what hatred does. They could hate some person half way around the world...do you think that person feels their hatred? No Yet their BP, and cerebral functions are getting zapped.  Now watch the tonnage of down arrows.

In the end they will get the justice they have earned.

[KK Tipton]

Says the pit viper......

After coldly locating bombing targets.

Why worship the military and glorify secrecy with that name?

http://www.thebigview.com/tao-te-ching/chapter31.html

"Weapons are ill-omened things.

Among gentle people the left side is the place of honour when at home,
but in war the right side is the place of honour.

Weapons are not proper instruments for gentle people;
they use them only when they have no other choice.
Peace and quiet are what they value.
They do not glory in victory.
to glorify it is to delight in the slaughter of people.
Those who delight in the slaughter of people will
never thrive among all that dwell under heaven.

The army that has killed people should be received with sorrow.
Conquerors should be received with the rites of mourning."

[GlomarHabu]

"There is an appointed time for everything Wait my brother for the love to come to you. Embrace life.

[akak]

Apparently, the appointed time for you to embrace truth, and to question authority, has not yet arrived. 
For that, you have my pity, but certainly not my respect.

[Element]

hmm ... the Force is weak with this one.

[Induced Coma]

Oh, I think we've stumbled onto something here, please do tell.. What is some of this good of which you speak?

[Clashfan]

Hatred like the tons of bombs dropped on Vietnam and Cambodia?

Hatred like murdering 3,000 innocent people on 911, which our government and Mossad did?

Hatred like trolling for the Luciferian elite?

[Chippewa Partners]

The enemy is within.   Look around.

[lolmao500]

Silver FTW... I wish I had been born sooner... I would have invested silver way ealier and would have made much more money.

[pods]

If you were born sooner you would not invest in silver to make money, it would have already BEEN money.

Crazy assed world we live in ain't it?

pods

[jumbo maverick]

Quote of the day. Should be on a billboard somewhere.

[Agent P]

But you'd be older and closer to death. 

[Pool Shark]

Unless of course you were born early enough to have bought in 1980...

[pods]

Heckuva job Brownie!

[buzzsaw99]

I commemorate 9/11 every year by getting a free anal probe at the airport. Allahu Akbar bitchez

[Colonel Klink]

DHS/TSA = modern day gestapo!

The terrorists already won and our government by design, has fallen right into their hands.

[Mary Wilbur]

I've been saying that for years.

[Colonel Klink]

I've been thinking it for years but it bears repeating often until they rollback the police state.

[putaipan]

I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people in — and the West in general — into an unbearable hell and a choking life.     ossama bin laden

[Colonel Klink]

I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people in — and the West in general — into an unbearable hell and a choking life.     -Barrak Hussein Obama

Fixed it for you.  You got the quote attibution incorrect.

[koncaswatch]

"Yep son, we have met the enemy and he is us."  Pogo

[john milton]

Construction keeps falling in Greece

The slowdown in building activity became even more acute in June, as the economic crisis has not only seen a huge drop in home construction in urban areas, but also in holiday resorts.

Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) data show that there were just 1,962 construction permits issued in the whole of Greece, which was 41.8 percent less than a year earlier.

They accounted for 299,500 square meters of surface area, a reduction of 42.9 percent over June 2011, and 1,111,100 cubic meters in volume, or 40.6 percent less than the previous June.

In the 12 months to June 2012, the yearly decline in permits amounted to 19.7 percent compared to the previous 12-month period, illustrating that the building sector is going from bad to worse.

[Joaquin Menendez]

Size of reducing agent in nano-thermite: 900%   09/11/01 - 100 nanometers, 09/11/12 - 10 nanometers   

[Pants McPants]

The stats reminded me of "The Hand that Feeds" by Nine Inch Nails:

What if this whole crusade's
A charade
And behind it all there's a price to be paid
For the blood
On which we dine
Justified in the name of the holy and the divine

Just how deep do you believe?
Will you bite the hand that feeds?
Will you chew until it bleeds?
Can you get up off your knees?
Are you brave enough to see?
Do you want to change it?

So naive
I keep holding on to what I want to believe
I can see
But I keep holding on and on and on and on

Will you bite the hand that feeds you?

[centerline]

Great song.  Comedians and musicians (artists) are the outlet for the truth.  No doubt.

[frenzic]

Good old Trent.

God money I'll do anything for you.
God money just tell me what you want me to.
God money nail me up against the wall.
God money don't want everything he wants it all.
No you can't take it
No you can't take it
No you can't take that away from me
No you can't take it
No you can't take it
No you can't take that away from me
Head like a hole.
Black as your soul.
I'd rather die than give you control.
Head like a hole.
Black as your soul.
I'd rather die than give you control.
Bow down before the one you serve.
You're going to get what you deserve.
Bow down before the one you serve.
You're going to get what you deserve.
God money's not looking for the cure.
God money's not concerned with the sick among the pure.
God money let's go dancing on the backs of the bruised.
God money's not one to choose
No you can't take it
No you can't take it
No you can't take that away from me
No you can't take it
No you can't take it
No you can't take that away from me
Head like a hole.
Black as your soul.
I'd rather die than give you control.
Head like a hole.
Black as your soul.
I'd rather die than give you control.
Bow down before the one you serve.
You're going to get what you deserve.
Bow down before the one you serve.
You're going to get what you deserve.
Bow down before the one you serve.
You're going to get what you deserve.
Bow down before the one you serve.
You're going to get what you deserve.
Head like a hole.
Black as your soul.
I'd rather die than give you control.
Head like a hole.
Black as your soul.
I'd rather die than give you control.
Bow down before the one you serve.
You're going to get what you deserve.
Bow down before the one you serve.
You're going to get what you deserve.
You know who you are.

[frenzic]

I doubt that. If 70% of people are moronic 70% of artists are. Besides who signs the check? It's mostly the other way around I'd say.

[Clashfan]

Centerline, have you read Inside the LC yet? Might want to take a look at that one.

[Racer]

What more proof do you need that with the inflating 'stability mandate' of the FED don't buy ANY shares or ETF's,

just buy physical gold and silver! And take your money out of the way of the robbing Bwanksters

[SmittyinLA]

They more than doubled the number of Muslims in America too.

[fourchan]

re that chart, god damn!

[10044]

Why don't you list the number of buildings that have collapsed since then due to "fire"?!!

[Zap Powerz]

Every day I come here and read articles and comments on articles and I come away with the feeling that we are totally fucked in the ass.

Thanks for that.

[tonyt78]

Agree 100%.

[Brazillionaire]

Great excuse to start working on your bucket list! If not now, when?

[centerline]

+1.  But, never underestimate the power of simple acts of kindness, respect, etc.  We can make a difference.

[Yes_Questions]

Huh, I come here for the guaranteed, BIG ASSIST, in seeing through lots and lots of bullshit.

And the laughs.

Out loud, and scotch on the keyboard, but only after 5.

Yeah, only after five..