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Post by jacquelope on May 5, 2012 2:36:23 GMT -6
Aid? Nice way to put out a fire once it has started. Hopefully on May 17th we'll enact a more permanent solution - metaphorical auto sprinkler systems in the form of TARIFFS.
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Post by jacquelope on Apr 24, 2012 19:20:27 GMT -6
140 lbs beating up a 250 pound young man? That stretches credibility just a bit. GB Especially when the 250lb man has a past track record of being fired from jobs for his violent outbursts. Zimmerman has a history of violence.
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Post by jacquelope on Apr 13, 2012 21:25:29 GMT -6
What do you guys think of the new rash of State and city laws forbidding large numbers of people in a single house? I'm thinking this is designed to force people out of the multi-generational lifestyle.
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Post by jacquelope on Apr 11, 2012 12:47:31 GMT -6
“We don’t have an obligation to solve America’s problems.” Well then, get the fcuk out of America. Go do business in the countries that you are so frickin' fond of. Operate under THEIR laws, and under THEIR rules, and THEIR protection. And see how you like it. While you're at it, stay there. ^^^ This, totally.
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Post by jacquelope on Apr 8, 2012 8:16:37 GMT -6
How will China and India maintain their exports to America if they do this?
I'm not seeing how offshoring will survive the end of the US dollar as the world's reserve currency.
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Post by jacquelope on Apr 6, 2012 3:30:48 GMT -6
Bwaaahahahahahahah I KNEW the plague of rising rents was going to be short-lived.
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Post by jacquelope on Apr 6, 2012 3:29:45 GMT -6
So, suicide and martyrdom is stage one, I understand that.
When will the Western world get to stage two?
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Post by jacquelope on Apr 5, 2012 10:07:39 GMT -6
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Post by jacquelope on Apr 5, 2012 10:05:51 GMT -6
The excuse is being spread among the populace via the Plutocrat-stream media, and now our job is to accept that an era of decline and great suffering is at hand. I warned everyone about this... news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/next-great-depression-mit-researchers-predict-global-economic-190352944.htmlNext Great Depression? MIT researchers predict ‘global economic collapse’ by 2030 A new study from researchers at Jay W. Forrester's institute at MIT says that the world could suffer from "global economic collapse" and "precipitous population decline" if people continue to consume the world's resources at the current pace. Smithsonian Magazine writes that Australian physicist Graham Turner says "the world is on track for disaster" and that current evidence coincides with a famous, and in some quarters, infamous, academic report from 1972 entitled, "The Limits to Growth." Produced for a group called The Club of Rome, the study's researchers created a computing model to forecast different scenarios based on the current models of population growth and global resource consumption. The study also took into account different levels of agricultural productivity, birth control and environmental protection efforts. Twelve million copies of the report were produced and distributed in 37 different languages. Most of the computer scenarios found population and economic growth continuing at a steady rate until about 2030. But without "drastic measures for environmental protection," the scenarios predict the likelihood of a population and economic crash.
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Post by jacquelope on Apr 5, 2012 9:41:29 GMT -6
This is an example of the working class DOING IT RIGHT!!!
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Post by jacquelope on Apr 5, 2012 9:33:26 GMT -6
and not a Plutocrat? news.yahoo.com/greek-suicide-potent-symbol-election-094457089.htmlGreek suicide a potent symbol before election ATHENS (Reuters) - A Greek pensioner's suicide outside parliament has quickly become a symbol of the pain of austerity and has been seized upon by opponents of the budget cuts imposed by Greece's international lenders. The 77-year-old retired pharmacist, Dimitris Christoulas, shot himself in the head on Wednesday after saying that financial troubles had pushed him over the edge. A suicide note said he preferred to die than scavenge for food.
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Post by jacquelope on Apr 4, 2012 18:53:43 GMT -6
How, then, would they avoid outsourcing jobs to America? If the dollar loses its reserve status, American labor is going to get pretty darned cheap.
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Post by jacquelope on Mar 27, 2012 9:25:09 GMT -6
Forget tariffs... how about an embargo?
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Post by jacquelope on Mar 14, 2012 17:54:02 GMT -6
Sex among American High Schoolers has declined in recent years even though high school girls are more agressive than ever in approach males. Why? No clear evidence exists why the decline in sexually active High Schoolers, but the reason females became more aggressive seems to be they want a male relationship that is lacking in the female head of household mothers. I have seen this up close and personal among aggressive college females towards the male peers of my 21 year old college senior son. What I have read of Japan, the males have abandoned the idea of marrying because they can not achieve sufficient status and wealth needed to be attractive mates for career females who do not want to marry beneath the females perceptions of the females status and career sucess. Many of my 21 year old college senior tech savy peers have close contacts or siblings in Japan; so, I hear stories of dating and engagements failing often ... one sibling (he teachs English in Japan under contracts) of a close friend of my son has had 2 engagements fail but remains committed to a life in Japan without hope of another relationship. In a word... hypergamy??? Seriously???
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Post by jacquelope on Mar 14, 2012 4:45:53 GMT -6
I hope you have a hydraulic lift for your jaws, folks, because they will hit the floor when you read this. This will affect Japan's economy PROFOUNDLY. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8257400/Third-of-young-Japanese-men-not-interested-in-sex.htmlThird of young Japanese men not interested in sex More than a third of Japanese males aged between 16 and 19 have no interest in or are actively averse to sex, according to a government survey. Japan's birth rate stands at 1.21 per family, far below the rate of 2.08 babies that is required for a stable population. As of March 2009, Japan's total population stood at just over 127 million, but that figure is projected to decline to 95 million by 2050. And if more drastic measures fail to encourage people to have sex - and hence children - then there will be a mere 47.7 million Japanese at the turn of the next century.
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Post by jacquelope on Mar 10, 2012 21:22:30 GMT -6
If China shifts away from US dollars, how will the price of Chinese imports NOT go up? I agree. They'd have to go up. China's "shifting away from US dollars" is just hot air. The yuan is still essentially pegged to the US dollar--and buying up US dollars is the very mechanism that China uses to accomplish that. When the yuan rises 10% in a year against the dollar, then I'll believe China is shifting away from US dollars. If the Yuan rises 10% in a year against the dollar I may have to go look at the small rack of wine bottles I've got downstairs. 20% and I may need to start thinking about which cork to pop. 30% = shop for a new Made in the USA wine glass.
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Post by jacquelope on Mar 9, 2012 13:11:57 GMT -6
If China shifts away from US dollars, how will the price of Chinese imports NOT go up?
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Post by jacquelope on Mar 9, 2012 0:06:15 GMT -6
I can't believe we stomped the US Chamber of Commerce and John BONER over this issue, and forced it through.
Wow.
The fact that it has reached Obama's desk is itself a major victory. It shows the anti-offshoring revolution is in full swing.
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Post by jacquelope on Mar 8, 2012 23:02:30 GMT -6
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Post by jacquelope on Feb 22, 2012 13:32:30 GMT -6
There was a documented case of this very thing happening in Washington state several years ago with Gov Gregoir in attendance. Ouch, if you can find that story, please post it up. I gotta get this spread around as far and wide as possible. Sadly the only way you can get anything disseminated nowadays is to post a video of a dancing cat. ARGH.
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Post by jacquelope on Feb 22, 2012 10:47:04 GMT -6
Stop what you're doing right now and show this to everyone you know.
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Post by jacquelope on Feb 14, 2012 12:13:27 GMT -6
www.juancole.com/2012/02/worlds-1-6-billion-poor-going-green.htmlWorld’s 1.6 Billion Poor Going Green Posted on 02/09/2012 by Juan Renewable energy is often thought of as an initiative of advanced, sane countries such as Portugal and Germany. But there is another arena where green energy is making an impact– on the lives of the world’s poorest populations, in the global South. For them, it is not a luxury or prudent planning for the future or a dutiful attempt to save the planet from the looming catastrophe of climate change fueled by humans pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Rather, it is a way of solving their present, low-tech energy crisis. Kevin Bullis explains that many villagers use expensive kerosene for cooking and heating, and to fuel lamps for light. Cell phones have spread rapidly in Africa and Asia (where often there is no grid of copper wires or underground fiber optic cables and so mobile phone towers allow them to leapfrog to a newer technology). But given that many villagers do not have electricity, they have to take their phones to private charging centers and pay an arm and a leg for the recharging. Both kerosene and the private charging stands can be replaced right now, in the present, with cheaper solar batteries. For light, solar-powered light-emitting diode (LED) panels are much cheaper than light bulbs powered by burning kerosene. Even the Economist agrees that for the 1.6 billion human beings not already connected to the electrical grid, renewable energy is now cheaper for them than carbon-fueled electricity. Kenyan families, for instance, pay $10 a month for kerosene, and $2 a month to charge their cell phones. A British company is now allowing them to buy via an installment plan a solar set that costs them less than $12 a month, so that in 18 months they will own it. They can then, if they like, take some of their savings and get a larger solar set with more power generating ability. In India, too, the poorest are getting access to solar cells. Since 2007, India has doubled its green power ability, from 10 gigawatts to 22 gigawatts. It may be investing more in research on renewable energy than any other nation. In 2011, India put $10 billion into this sector. Likewise, Nicaragua’s commitment to green energy is such that that Central American country is hoping to get almost all its electricity from renewables by 2016. Admittedly, it will accomplish a good deal of this goal with a traditional hydro-electric generating plant rather than primarily with wind and solar. But the latter are an important part of the energy mix in Nicaragua. Going green is not only cheaper than increasingly expensive oil, but has other benefits as well. It discourages villagers from burning down the forest for wood to burn. It is likely that the cost of solar power generation will cross with that of hydrocarbons sometime in the next 5-10 years, even for the advanced countries. Because they dont’ have a built-out grid and because even an electric light is expensive for them, the villagers of the global South are pioneers of the new, renewable world.
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Post by jacquelope on Jan 31, 2012 21:21:45 GMT -6
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Post by jacquelope on Jan 14, 2012 14:28:44 GMT -6
Are fish extinct in the US?
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Post by jacquelope on Jan 14, 2012 14:03:53 GMT -6
No govt aspirin:Greek, Spain govts fail to support My model for average Americans that depend of government safety nets looks more like what is happening now in Spain (Cities & Regional governments without electricity) and starting to happen in Greece (no government aspirins available to drug stores: see 'Greek Crisis Has Pharmacists Pleading for Aspirin' www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-10/greek-crisis-has-pharmacists-pleading-for-aspirin-as-drug-supply-dries-up.html). When? I target national failure of governments in America to pay their bills after a Dollar crisis and agree with those that warning average Americans about depending on fiats and agree about Bank confisications as in the Great Depression or Argentina's 1990s currency crisis. My date: 2014 and/or beyond. My daughters do not date broke ass guys. Our governments will become broke ass guys. Things like this lead to resource shortages and then hyperinflation. Then everyone becomes broke... who will all the ladies of the world date then?
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Post by jacquelope on Jan 9, 2012 14:27:54 GMT -6
Hmmm. The police drive cars like that? China sure knows how to pay off its police thugs.
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Post by jacquelope on Dec 28, 2011 2:13:33 GMT -6
Is there any reason China can't just print more Yuan, and bail out their lenders and debtors, the way Congress and the Fed did in the US? If they did, it would have the added benefit (to China) of suppressing the value of their currency, thus increasing their trade surplus with the US even more. Well I'm wondering, if China did that then wouldn't that cause their inflation to overheat? I've another theory about China's persistent trade surplus during a dollar devaluation - we're in a donut hole where our currency is devalued but not enough to wipe out the China advantage. To cross that donut hole is to cause a hell of a lot of trouble for our economy.
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Post by jacquelope on Dec 27, 2011 20:46:57 GMT -6
I'm an advocate of more unionization and more labor power. I didn't always feel this way, but the balance of power has shifted so far that toward management that labor has much too little bargaining power. I was a member of the IUMSWA (International Union of Marine & Shipyard Workers of America) back in the 70's. Even though I wasn't initially a fan of unions, I eventually saw the light. I always saw unions as having more pride in their work - and the stories of lazy union workers, in my travels, has always been an exception that I RARELY ever saw. Management, on the other hand, has a far higher incidence of incompetence and laziness. You know what they say, if you can't do, teach, and if you can't teach, manage...
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Post by jacquelope on Dec 27, 2011 20:45:00 GMT -6
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Post by jacquelope on Dec 23, 2011 6:15:38 GMT -6
The 35% fraction of GDP going to consumer spending is ultimately going to sink China. This number has actually fallen over the last 5 years. Eventually even the US will reduce its imports from China. Without sharing more of their GDP with consumers, their economy will not make it indefinitely. Occupy Wall Street has been striking the fire under America's anti-offshoring powder keg. The pro-offshoring movement is running out of rocks to hide under. Confidence is HIGH for these guys. (A nuclear war term.) It may be later for China than they realize!
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