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4th October 2013, 16:03 | #41 |
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4th October 2013, 18:18 | #42 |
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I suppose this is too much to hope this might be what finally prompts the much needed reform in the US government.
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4th October 2013, 19:54 | #43 |
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lol yeah right
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5th October 2013, 13:00 | #44 |
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http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/04/us...html?hpt=hp_t2
"The incident occurred near the National Air and Space Museum." That's pretty close to the smithsonian, right... chubby?
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6th October 2013, 19:53 | #45 |
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my daughter(9),accompanying-is experiencing a partial news blackout@the moment.
the port shooting got her attention..i dont need to establish a theme here-it's hard enough trying not to teach anti-americanism.i dont need the real world doing it in my place.
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6th October 2013, 21:01 | #46 |
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idgi, see all these photos of <historical landmark> 'oh noes its shut down' with cones or a waist high fences in the way... like fuck some delineation is going to stop me seeing my heritage.
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6th October 2013, 21:21 | #47 |
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yanks are into symbolism.
and personally,more the realisation(after reading way to much good near-future sci fi)that Washington is the last place i want to be when it all goes titsup.
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6th October 2013, 22:46 | #49 |
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So, on the off chance that the government stays shut down and the debt ceiling doesn't get raised, and they default, what sort of shit storm will that generate?
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6th October 2013, 23:24 | #50 |
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THE RAPTURE!!!
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7th October 2013, 09:47 | #51 | |
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USA won't be the awesome, reliable country for China etc to lend to, they'll be those shitheads that defaulted on payments. Shit gon' get real.
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7th October 2013, 13:47 | #54 |
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Another uni student just posted this one on facebook, any thoughts?
http://nsnbc.me/2013/09/25/global-ec...e-unavoidable/ |
7th October 2013, 14:19 | #55 | |
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7th October 2013, 14:31 | #56 |
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Also, this article, published way back on the 21st of may:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/recover...collapse/30960 contains this rather eerie prediction, about half way down, that republicans will generate a crisis over the debt ceiling to distract people from the real issue: "Recently Bill Moyers interviewed Simon Johnson, formerly chief economist of the International Monetary Fund and currently professor at MIT ... Johnson warns that the Republicans will distract everyone from the real crisis by concocting another “crisis” over the debt ceiling." which it looks like we're now, in october, not a terribly long way off. Wikipedia page on Simon Johnson: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Johnson_(economist) How much attention should I pay to this? Should I tell Dad to get the hell out of the middle east? |
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7th October 2013, 15:06 | #58 |
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Usually I would be pretty slow to pay much attention to any of this sort of doomsayer kind of stuff. But financial doom is one kind of doom that I really can't help but wonder and worry about. It particularly worries me because Dad is living in the middle east, and I can't imagine that would be a great place to be in the midst of a global financial meltdown. The thought that he might get stuck over there with everyone trying to exit and airlines shutting down, and maybe war breaking out, is an idea that I really do find scary. Perhaps that is merely overdramatising, but in a collapse that is big enough I can't help but think that the degree and severity of the fallout would be hard to predict. The worst case scenario might be much worse that we would normally expect from mere financial issues.
Can we even reasonably rely upon traditional media outlets which would probably be credible for most other things to provide us with honest analysis of potential financial meltdowns? It's not like those media organisations did a lot to warn us about the 2007 GFC. And it is at least conceivable that some powerful corporates with a lot of wealth might seek to keep them quiet about something like a global financial collapse. I wonder if one worthwhile indicator that might be interesting to look at would be futures markets in which contracts might be sold on upcoming global financial collapse. But I don't have any knowledge or skills on how to access the relevant futures markets or how to interpret the information that would be there even if I did know how to access them. Even then, on the other hand, perhaps that wouldn't be a sensible metric, since anyone who had a real prediction that the value of global currency was going to go belly up probably wouldn't be interested in betting to win a bunch of paper which, when the win conditions were satisfied, would end up being worthless anyway. I don't know, maybe that's an oversimplification of it. Anyway, I'll STFU now and hopefully someone will say something to soothe my worries. Last edited by Nothing : 7th October 2013 at 15:08. |
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7th October 2013, 15:53 | #60 |
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Should I buy a gun?
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7th October 2013, 16:10 | #61 |
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Wait - I thought Doomsday preppers being on NetGeo and not ComedyCentral was an error?
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7th October 2013, 16:24 | #62 | |
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8th October 2013, 00:48 | #63 | |
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8th October 2013, 13:16 | #65 |
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Forgot Molemen.
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8th October 2013, 16:10 | #66 |
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The Republicans have gone full retard, and Boehner's trapped. He doesn't have any options.
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8th October 2013, 16:25 | #68 |
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Can you point me to the "not-so-crazy" bit? Because all three of those options are basically waving a magic wand and going "abracadabra no more debt, yay!"
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8th October 2013, 16:31 | #69 |
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Ima steal me that trillion dollar coin.
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8th October 2013, 16:34 | #70 |
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Not so crazy as defaulting?
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8th October 2013, 17:45 | #72 |
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I thought the US debt was a non-issue. It's like have $10m in assests, with $100k annual outgoings and $90k annual incomings. Not a problem for quite some time. Or something like that, cause I've got a degree in economics and general fanciness, right?
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8th October 2013, 18:55 | #73 |
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debt ceiling increase needed by 17th
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And Yes, and they've currently told everyone the liquid outgoings have stopped temporarily because liquid incoming's have currently stopped, but they're about to default on loan repayments, so their credit history's about to get a big black mark, which means it'll be way harder to get future loans.
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10th October 2013, 02:27 | #78 |
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America, you so.. what's the word I'm looking for? Oh yeah, retarded.
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013...myths-debunked |
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10th October 2013, 10:37 | #80 |
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Both the shutdown and the debt ceiling crisis are man made issues with a sooner-or-later man made resolution.
Newt Gingrich is somewhat right when he says the shutdown-related hysteria is overblown. It won't be even a talking point in a few weeks, it'll either be the status quo, or resolved very quickly when the pains start to directly affect the politicians in a negative way. Food for thought: If a race related law was going into action in a 1950's America, and a few extreme politicians did the same boycotting with a positive outcome, even if it was unfavorable to the masses at the time, they'd be called heroes today. What the GOP is doing is completely legal, all the systems are in place to let them do exactly what they're doing. Want that to change? The systems need to change.
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