Tuesday, February 22, 2011
The Damage
THE DAMAGE OBAMA HAS DONE
By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
Published on DickMorris.com on February 15, 2011
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The mainstream media does not cover the full extent of the damage the Obama Administration has inflicted on this country. Even FOX News often doesn't have the time to go into sufficient depth to explain what is happening.
From our friend Ruth S. King comes a chart which all of us should read and absorb, sobering though it may be:
January 2009 Today % chg Source Avg. retail price/gallon gas in U.S. $1.83 $3.104 69.6% 1 Crude oil, European Brent (barrel) $43.48 $99.02 127.7% 2 Crude oil, West TX Inter. (barrel) $38.74 $91.38 135.9% 2 Gold: London (per troy oz.) $853.25 $1,369.50 60.5% 2 Corn, No.2 yellow, Central IL $3.56 $6.33 78.1% 2 Soybeans, No. 1 yellow, IL $9.66 $13.75 42.3% 2 Sugar, cane, raw, world, lb. fob $13.37 $35.39 164.7% 2 Unemployment rate, non-farm, overall 7.6% 9.4% 23.7% 3 Unemployment rate, blacks 12.6% 15.8% 25.4% 3 Number of unemployed 11,616,000 14,485,000 24.7% 3 Number of fed. employees, ex. military (curr = 12/10 prelim) 2,779,000 2,840,000 2.2% 3 Real median household income (2008 v 2009) $50,112 $49,777 -0.7% 4 Number of food stamp recipients (curr = 10/10) 31,983,716 43,200,878 35.1% 5 Number of unemployment benefit recipients (curr = 12/10) 7,526,598 9,193,838 22.2% 6 Number of long-term unemployed 2,600,000 6,400,000 146.2% 3 Poverty rate, individuals (2008 v 2009) 13.2% 14.3% 8.3% 4 People in poverty in U.S. (2008 v 2009) 39,800,000 43,600,000 9.5% 4 U.S. rank in Economic Freedom World Rankings 5 9 n/a 10 Present Situation Index (curr = 12/10) 29.9 23.5 -21.4% 11 Failed banks (curr = 2010 + 2011 to date) 140 164 17.1% 12 U.S. dollar versus Japanese yen exchange rate 89.76 82.03 -8.6% 2 U.S. money supply, M1, in billions (curr = 12/10 prelim) 1,575.1 1,865.7 18.4% 13 U.S. money supply, M2, in billions (curr = 12/10 prelim) 8,310.9 8,852.3 6.5% 13 National debt, in trillions $10.627 $14.052 32.2% 14Just take this last item: In the last two years we have accumulated national debt at a rate more than 27 times as fast as during the rest of our entire nation's history. Over 27 times as fast! Metaphorically, speaking, if you are driving in the right lane doing 65 MPH and a car rockets past you in the left lane 27 times faster . . . it would be doing 1,755 MPH!
Sources:
(1) U.S. Energy Information Administration; (2) Wall Street Journal; (3) Bureau of Labor Statistics; (4) Census Bureau; (5) USDA; (6) U.S. Dept. of Labor; (7) FHFA; (8) Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller; (9) RealtyTrac; (10) Heritage Foundation and WSJ; (11) The Conference Board; (12) FDIC; (13) Federal Reserve; (14) U.S. Treasury
Experts warn US must take space storm threat seriously . .
Congress -critters already know about this problem . . and they used your taxes .. to build themselves underground bunkers. So, do not bother to tell them . . they know.
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Experts warn US must take space storm threat seriously
by Terrence Aym
February 21, 2011
http://www.helium.com/items/2097378-experts-warn-us-must-take-space-storm-threat-seriously
Warnings have been voiced for the last two years: the sun is waking up and it could be very destructive.
Recently, the strongest solar flare in four years hit Earth a glancing blow and caused havoc in China, splashed a rare display of the Northern lights over the UK and prompted aviation officials to route planes away from the higher polar regions.
The sun is waking from a long quiet period and this go around it may prove to be very, very active.
That's not a good thing.
Scientists strongest predictions of a worst case scenario for the new solar maximum falls into the category of a "global Katrina" possibly plunging the world into an extended financial depression and a loss of two trillion dollars or more.
Now again scientists have underscored their previous warning by issuing another at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C.
"We have to take the issue of space weather seriously," said Sir John Beddington, the UK's chief scientist at the gathering. "The sun is coming out of a quiet period, and our vulnerability has increased since the last solar maximum."
The previous solar maximum occurred about a decade ago and saw flares with greater intensity than any that had ever been measured.
"Predict and prepare should be the watchwords," agreed Jane Lubchenco, head of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. "So much more of our technology is vulnerable than it was 10 years ago."
The last massive cycle that occurred in 1859 brought catastrophe and caused telegraph lines around the US to burst into flames.
The day the Earth stood still
In the recent article titled, "NASA warns solar flares from 'huge space storm' will cause devastation" The Daily Telegraph illustrates the step-by-step destruction of the first world countries.
Among all the countries with exposure to the solar devastation, the United States is the most susceptible.
As The Daily Telegraph writes, "National power grids could overheat and air travel severely disrupted while electronic items, navigation devices and major satellites could stop working after the Sun reaches its maximum power… "
Mammoth magnetic storms
Experts on the sun are very concerned as they see the sun awaking from its unusually long slumber with a violence unseen for generations. That violence could be in the form of mammoth magnetic storms. Those storms hitting the Earth will be like a giant's fist slamming into the fragile electronic technology that runs the world. Hurricanes, earthquakes and tsunamis pale by comparison.
"We know it is coming but we don't know how bad it is going to be," Dr Richard Fisher, the director of NASA's Heliophysics division, said in an interview with The Daily Telegraph. "It will disrupt communication devices such as satellites and car navigation, air travel, the banking system, our computers, everything that is electronic. It will cause major problems for the world."
The NASA scientist and his European counterparts are very concerned that no government has taken steps to protect the infrastructure. Time has almost run out and the worst case scenario would catapult the world from the 21st Century to the 19th Century in the blink of an eye.
The solar effect and 'frenetic calm'
"Systems will just not work. The flares change the magnetic field on the earth that is rapid and like a lightning bolt. That is the solar affect," Fisher added.
Since the sun's last upheaval caused worldwide disruption and destruction in 1859, civilization has rapidly advanced a society based on a technological infrastructure that can be whisked away in moments by a severe geomagnetic storm.
Similar in many respects to an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) that can be employed as a weapon to rip away the technology of an enemy country during warfare, massive solar flares achieve the same effect by shorting out electrical circuits, burning wiring, overloading generators and zapping computers.
As a heliophysicist recently remarked, the underlying emotion of space experts is one of "frenetic calm."
Back in 2008, the National Academy of Sciences issued their dire report: "Severe Space Weather Events—Societal and Economic Impacts." The report outlined, in excruciating detail, the potential demise of America's 21st Century technological base—and the resulting havoc to the economy and society.
It spelled out how people in the first world countries rely heavily upon technologies at risk from solar storms—a technology that empowers financial systems, electrical power grids, water plants, air travel, farming, transportation, GPS navigation of aircraft and sea–going vessels…even the daily operation of government at all levels.
Technological collapse
After the solar blast all most communication will fail; power will fail. Cities will be left without light, water and food will run out. Civil unrest will become rampant as society collapses in a matter of days. The US federal and state governments will be hard-pressed to restore order amongst 300 million people as mass starvation begins and sources of potable water dwindle.
Restoration of the infrastructure could take years, even a decade or more. During the interim more than a billion people could die worldwide—more if warfare breaks out between countries desperate for resources.
This time around the sun's fury could bring technological Armageddon: The near total failure of 21st Century technology leading to the total collapse of the financial, transportation and government infrastructures and subsequently the entire Western economy.
And because we've painted ourselves into a technological corner, there's not a damn thing anyone can do to stop it.
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Space Shuttle - Time Lapse Launch Sequence...
This is great!
This is the stuff you DON'T normally see. Time lapse launch sequence.
And after next year you won't ever see it again, It is silent until the last few seconds.
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Why Conservatism
32nd. President, Democrat Terms of Office March 4, 1933, to April 12, 1945 | Our Social Security Franklin Delano. Roosevelt (Terms of Office March 4, 1933, to April 12, 1945), a Democrat, introduced Social Security (FICA) Program. He Promised: 1.) That participation in the Program would be Completely voluntary, 2.) That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual Incomes into the Program, 3.) That the money the participants elected to put Into the Program would be deductible from Their income for tax purposes each year, 4.) That the money the participants put into the Independent 'Trust Fund' rather than into the General operating fund, and therefore, would Only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other Government program, and 5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income. Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a Social Security check every month -- and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of the money we paid to the Federal government to 'Put Away' -- you may be interested in the following: |
34th. President, Republican, Term Of Office: January 20, 1953 to January 20, 1961 | 1958 is the first year that Congress, not President Eisenhower, voted to remove funds from Social Security and put it into the General Fund for Congress to spend. It was a democratically controlledCongress. Apparently Congress' logic at that time was that there was so much money in Social Security Fund that it would never run out / be used up for the purpose it was intended / set aside for. By the way, it was President Kennedy who used Social Security funds to start the Peace Corp. |
Term Of Office: November 22, 1963 to January 20, 1969 | Question: Which Political Party took Social Security from the Independent 'Trust Fund' and put it into the General Fund so that Congress could spend it? Answer: It was Lyndon B. Johnson (Democrat,Term of Office: November 22,1963 to January 20, 1969) and the Democrat Controlled House and Senate. |
William Jefferson Clinton (Bill Clinton) 42nd. President Democrat Term of Office: January 20, 1993 to January 20, 2001 | Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. 45th.. Vice President Democrat Term of Office: January 20, 1993 to January 20, 2001 |
Question: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities? Answer: The Democratic Party, with Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. (Al Gore) [Vice President Term of Office: January 10, 1993 to January 20, 2001] casting the 'tie breaking' deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of the US .... | |
James Earl Carter, Jr 39th President, Democrat Term of Office: January 20, 1977 to January 20, 1981 | Question: Which Political Party decided to start giving Annuity payments to immigrants? AND MY FAVORITE: ANSWER: That's right! JAMES EARL CARTER, JR. (jIMMY CARTER) (DEMOCRAT, TERM OF OFFICE: JANUARY 20, 1977 TO JANUARY 20, 1981 AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. IMMIGRANTS MOVED INTO THIS COUNTRY, AND AT AGE 65, BEGAN TO RECEIVE SOCIAL SECURITY PAYMENTS: THE DEMOCRATIC PARTYGAVE THESE PAYMENTS TO THEM,EVEN THOUGH THEY NEVER PAID A DIME INTO IT! |
Then, after violating the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and try to tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away! And the worst part about it is uninformed citizens believe it! If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of Awareness will be planted and maybe changes WILL evolve! . |
Friday, February 18, 2011
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Praise for Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet.
Sure, like his Commie predecessor Salvador Allende, he had his faults, but his economic legacy has made Chile the richest per-capita, healthiest, least corrupt country in South America. Compare it to Venezuela today. Liberals hate being told this. Their hero is the "martyred" Allende, of course. But under Allende, inflation was running at 1,000 percent, whereas thanks to free market reforms introduced by Pinochet - taking advice from Milton Friedman's "Chicago Boys"- the Chilean economy thrived. We saw the differing results of this from two earthquakes - the one in Haiti in January 2010 that claimed nearly a quarter of a million lives; and the one in Chile a month later which, though 500 times more powerful, claimed just over 700 lives. Why? Because rich economies can afford to build earthquake-proof buildings. Impoverished ones dependent for their survival on international aid alone cannot.
Socialism just does not work; not here, not in Chile, not in Haiti, not in Venezuela, not in Cuba, not in China (which is abandoning Communism), not in Soviet Russia (which no longer exists), not in North Korea (which has less than 5% of the South's GNP). So why do we have an entire political party and its leader dedicated to Socialism? Because it, at least temporarily, keeps them in power by buying votes. Abandon the Democrats to their own devices and California, New York, Michigan, perhaps Minnesota and Wisconsin, and Illinois will all be forced to declare bankruptcy. Should be some bargains available in those states again, one of these days.
PS: When Milton Friedman collected his Nobel Prize, he was heckled by leftists for having advised so repugnant a regime. He wryly noted that he had Given Communist dictatorships the same advice - but strangely, no one attacked him for that.
PL Booth, The Blue Eye View of MO, 2/18/11
Monday, February 14, 2011
TWO YEARS OF DISASTER...
Remember, (BO's lying banker) Bernanke says that we are not inflating!
But how can you monetize our debt (no country has bought our debt in the last six months - the Federal Reserve bought it all) without inflating?
IT HAS ONLY BEEN 2 YEARS!
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