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They Thought They Were Free-The Germans pdf-Milton Mayer

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:58:58 -0700

They Thought They Were Free-The Germans

Please watch this new video on what's coming

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:16:41 -0700

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Another Important George Soros video to watch

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:48:29 -0700

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Creator of Chaos says..

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:49:17 -0700

And HE should know just how true all of this is since HE has been proven to be the financial backing for groups like the Occupy crowd, Code Pink and several other groups who do nothing but protest and cause chaos, Soros is FAMOUS for supporting and financing groups such as these..He wants the destruction of Israel and the United States, they are the last two countries standing in his way for a One World Government.

Quote:George Soros on the Coming U.S. Class War
'The situation is about as serious and difficult as I've experienced in my career.'
by John Arlidge | January 23, 2012 12:00 AM EST

You know George Soros. He’s the investor’s investor—the man who still holds the record for making more money in a single day’s trading than anyone. He pocketed $1 billion betting against the British pound on “Black Wednesday” in 1992, when sterling lost 20 percent of its value in less than 24 hours and crashed out of the European exchange-rate mechanism. No wonder Brits call him, with a mix of awe and annoyance, “the man who broke the Bank of England.”

Soros doesn’t make small bets on anything. Beyond the markets, he has plowed billions of dollars of his own money into promoting political freedom in Eastern Europe and other causes. He bet against the Bush White House, becoming a hate magnet for the right that persists to this day. So, as Soros and the world’s movers once again converge on Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum this week, what is one of the world’s highest-stakes economic gamblers betting on now?

He’s not. For the first time in his 60-year career, Soros, now 81, admits he is not sure what to do. “It’s very hard to know how you can be right, given the damage that was done during the boom years,” Soros says. He won’t discuss his portfolio, lest anyone think he’s talking things down to make a buck. But people who know him well say he advocates making long-term stock picks with solid companies, avoiding gold—“the ultimate bubble”—and, mainly, holding cash.

He’s not even doing the one thing that you would expect from a man who knows a crippled currency when he sees one: shorting the euro, and perhaps even the U.S. dollar, to hell. Quite the reverse. He backs the beleaguered euro, publicly urging European leaders to do whatever it takes to ensure its survival. “The euro must survive because the alternative—a breakup—would cause a meltdown that Europe, the world, can’t afford.” He has bought about $2 billion in European bonds, mainly Italian, from MF Global Holdings Ltd., the securities firm run by former Goldman Sachs head Jon Corzine that filed for bankruptcy protection last October.

Has the great short seller gone soft? Well, yes. Sitting in his 33rd-floor corner office high above Seventh Avenue in New York, preparing for his trip to Davos, he is more concerned with surviving than staying rich. “At times like these, survival is the most important thing,” he says, peering through his owlish glasses and brushing wisps of gray hair off his forehead. He doesn’t just mean it’s time to protect your assets. He means it’s time to stave off disaster. As he sees it, the world faces one of the most dangerous periods of modern history—a period of “evil.” Europe is confronting a descent into chaos and conflict. In America he predicts riots on the streets that will lead to a brutal clampdown that will dramatically curtail civil liberties. The global economic system could even collapse altogether.
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George Soros. , Photograph by Jake Chessum for Newsweek

“I am not here to cheer you up. The situation is about as serious and difficult as I’ve experienced in my career,” Soros tells Newsweek. “We are facing an extremely difficult time, comparable in many ways to the 1930s, the Great Depression. We are facing now a general retrenchment in the developed world, which threatens to put us in a decade of more stagnation, or worse. The best-case scenario is a deflationary environment. The worst-case scenario is a collapse of the financial system.”

Soros’s warning is based as much on his own extraordinary personal history as on his gut instinct for market booms and busts. “I did survive a personally much more threatening situation, so it is emotional, as well as rational,” he acknowledges. Soros was just 13 when Nazi soldiers invaded and occupied his native Hungary in March 1944. In only eight weeks, almost half a million Hungarian Jews were deported, many to Auschwitz. He saw bodies of Jews, and the Christians who helped them, swinging from lampposts, their skulls crushed. He survived, thanks to his father, Tivadar, who managed to secure false identities for his family. Later, he watched as Russian forces ousted the Nazis and a new totalitarian ideology, communism, replaced fascism. As life got tougher during the postwar Soviet occupation, Soros managed to emigrate, first to London, then to New York.

Soros draws on his past to argue that the global economic crisis is as significant, and unpredictable, as the end of communism. “The collapse of the Soviet system was a pretty extraordinary event, and we are currently experiencing something similar in the developed world, without fully realizing what’s happening.” To Soros, the spectacular debunking of the credo of efficient markets—the notion that markets are rational and can regulate themselves to avert disaster—“is comparable to the collapse of Marxism as a political system. The prevailing interpretation has turned out to be very misleading. It assumes perfect knowledge, which is very far removed from reality. We need to move from the Age of Reason to the Age of Fallibility in order to have a proper understanding of the problems.”

Understanding, he says, is key. “Unrestrained competition can drive people into actions that they would otherwise regret. The tragedy of our current situation is the unintended consequence of imperfect understanding. A lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional. A lot of people in the financial system did a lot of damage without intending to.” Still, Soros believes the West is struggling to cope with the consequences of evil in the financial world just as former Eastern bloc countries struggled with it politically. Is he really saying that the financial whizzes behind our economic meltdown were not just wrong, but evil? “That’s correct.” Take that, Lloyd Blankfein, the Goldman Sachs boss who told The Sunday Times of London at the height of the financial crisis that bankers “do God’s work.”

To many, the idea of Soros lecturing the world on “evil” is, well, rich. Here, after all, is an investor who proved—and profited hugely from—the now much-derided notion that the market, or in his case a single investor, is more powerful than sovereign governments. He broke the Bank of England, destroyed the Conservative Party’s reputation for economic competence, and reduced the value of the pound in British consumers’ pockets by one fifth in a single day. Soros the currency speculator has been condemned as “unnecessary, unproductive, immoral.” Mahathir Mohamad, former prime minister of Malaysia, once called him “criminal” and “a moron.”

In the U.S., where the right still has not forgiven him for agitating against President George W. Bush and the “war on terror” after 9/11, which he described as “pernicious,” his prediction of riots on the streets—“it’s already started,” he says—will likely spark fresh criticism that Soros is a “far-left, radical bomb thrower,” as Bill O’Reilly once put it. Critics already allege he is stoking the fires by funding the Occupy movement through Adbusters, the Canadian provocateurs who sparked the movement. Not so, says Soros.

Soros’s fragrant personal life will also prompt many to pooh-pooh his moralizing. Last year, Adriana Ferreyr, his 28-year-old companion for many years, sued him in New York Supreme Court in Manhattan, alleging he reneged on two separate promises to buy her an apartment, causing her extreme emotional distress. Ferreyr, a former soap-opera star in Brazil, said Soros had given the apartment he had promised her to another girlfriend. She also claimed he assaulted her. Soros has dismissed Ferreyr’s claims as “frivolous and entirely without merit” and “riddled with false charges and obviously an attempt to extract money.”

Despite his baggage, the man who now views himself as a statesman-philanthropist is undeterred. Having profited from unregulated markets, he now wants to deliver us from them. Take Europe. He’s now convinced that “if you have a disorderly collapse of the euro, you have the danger of a revival of the political conflicts that have torn Europe apart over the centuries—an extreme form of nationalism, which manifests itself in xenophobia, the exclusion of foreigners and ethnic groups. In Hitler’s time, that was focused on the Jews. Today, you have that with the Gypsies, the Roma, which is a small minority, and also, of course, Muslim immigrants.”

It is “now more likely than not” that Greece will formally default in 2012, Soros will tell leaders in Davos this week. He will castigate European leaders who seem to know only how to “do enough to calm the situation, not to solve the problem.” If Germany’s Angela Merkel or France’s Nicolas Sarkozy nurses any lingering hopes of finding their salvation outside the continent, they are mistaken. “I took a recent trip to China, and China won’t come to Europe’s rescue,” Soros says. Despite all its woes, he nevertheless thinks the euro will—just barely—survive.

While Soros, whose new book, Financial Turmoil in Europe and the United States, will be published in early February, is currently focused on Europe, he’s quick to claim that economic and social divisions in the U.S. will deepen, too. He sympathizes with the Occupy movement, which articulates a widespread disillusionment with capitalism that he shares. People “have reason to be frustrated and angry” at the cost of rescuing the banking system, a cost largely borne by taxpayers rather than shareholders or bondholders.

Occupy Wall Street “is an inchoate, leaderless manifestation of protest,” but it will grow. It has “put on the agenda issues that the institutional left has failed to put on the agenda for a quarter of a century.” He reaches for analysis, produced by the political blog ThinkProgress.org, that shows how the Occupy movement has pushed issues of unemployment up the agenda of major news organizations, including MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News. It reveals that in one week in July of last year the word “debt” was mentioned more than 7,000 times on major U.S. TV news networks. By October, mentions of the word “debt” had dropped to 398 over the course of a week, while “occupy” was mentioned 1,278 times, “Wall Street” 2,378 times, and “jobs” 2,738 times. You can’t keep a financier away from his metrics.

As anger rises, riots on the streets of American cities are inevitable. “Yes, yes, yes,” he says, almost gleefully. The response to the unrest could be more damaging than the violence itself. “It will be an excuse for cracking down and using strong-arm tactics to maintain law and order, which, carried to an extreme, could bring about a repressive political system, a society where individual liberty is much more constrained, which would be a break with the tradition of the United States.”

In spite of his warnings of political turmoil in the U.S., he has no plans to engage in politics directly. “I would prefer not to be involved in party politics. It’s only because I felt that the Bush administration was misleading the country that I became involved. I was very hopeful of a new beginning with Obama, and I’ve been somewhat disappointed. I remain a supporter of the Democratic Party, but I’m fully aware of their shortcomings.” Soros believes Obama still has a chance of winning this year’s election. “Obama might surprise the public. The main issue facing the electorate is whether the rich should be taxed more. It shouldn’t be a difficult argument for Obama to make.”

If there is a glimmer of hope for the world in 2012, Soros believes it lies in emerging markets. The democratic-reform movement that has spread across the Middle East, the rise of democracy and economic growth in Africa, even reform in Russia may yet drag the world out of the mire. “While the developed world is in a deep crisis, the future for the developing world is very positive. The aspiration of people for an open society is very inspiring. You have people in Africa lining up for many hours when they are given an opportunity to vote. Dictators have been overthrown. It is very encouraging for freedom and growth.”

Soros insists the key to avoiding cataclysm in 2012 is not to let the crises of 2011 go to waste. “In the crisis period, the impossible becomes possible. The European Union could regain its luster. I’m hopeful that the United States, as a political entity, will pass a very severe test and actually strengthen the institution.” Nor has he quite given up hope that the central bankers and prime ministers gathering in Davos this week have got what it takes to rally round and prove him wrong. This time, being wrong would make him happy indeed.

If you can see this video

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:22:24 -0700

Please watch it..It's about 15 minutes long.

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Glenn beck Radio Stations on Iheart

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:04:48 -0700

This isn't a complete list but it's getting there, I will update it as I go along. Times are approximate for the city and states so if you want to listen make sure you check what time it is in the state where you want to listen.
You can check current times in all states here.

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Map of affiliate stations. stations

1100 wtam 9-12am Cleveland, OH

970 wfla 9-12am Tampa, FL

wtvn 610 9-12am Columbus, OH

104.7 9-12am (not sure where this is yet)

640 Wgst 9-12am Atlanta, GA

wrdu 9-12am Raleigh, NC

630 khow 12-3 pm Denver, CO

55 krc 9-12am Cincinnati, OH

knrs 105.7 fm 6-10am Salt lake city, Ut

540 wfla 9-12am Pine Hills, FL

whp 580 9-12am Harrisburg, Pa

wood 106.9 9-12am Grand rapids, Mi

910 knew 12-3pm San francisco, Ca

600 kcol 4-7pm Fort collins, Co

So much for the "stick it to us" Stimulus.

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 07:40:33 -0700

Quote:Further rise in poverty seen with slow recovery
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Wed, Jan 11 2012

By Mary Wisniewski

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Nearly 10 million more Americans have fallen into poverty since the 2007-2009 U.S. recession began, and the number is expected to increase due to the slow pace of the economic recovery, a study released on Wednesday by Indiana University showed.

The number of Americans living in poverty grew to 46.2 million in 2010, up 27 percent from 36.5 million in 2006, the year before the start of the recession, the study found. During the same period, the U.S. population increased 3.3 percent.

The U.S. population is roughly 310 million people.

Poverty is defined in the United States as income below $22,113 a year for a family of four.

The study uses 2010 U.S. Census Bureau data released last year plus other government numbers.

Poverty was expected to have increased again in 2011 due to the slow pace of the economic recovery, the persistent high rate of unemployment, and the long duration of spells of unemployment, the study found.

Although the official U.S. rate of unemployment is declining, this is largely due to many adults giving up looking for a job, the report said. The ratio of employed people to working-age adults has improved only slightly since the recession ended in June 2009, the study found.

If the long-term jobless lose their unemployment insurance benefits before the economy produces enough well-paying jobs, the ranks of the "new poor" will continue to swell steadily through 2017, the study found.

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Hi BoomFox!

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:16:24 -0700

I talked to Kit and she said it would be fine if I ask you all a favor.

My message board is in a contest. I am up for Board of the Year at Runboard. You can only vote in this contest if you have been a member at Runboard for at least 30 days and you can only vote once in the contest.

Here is the link to the contest thread and my board is Susa's Sunroom. It is board #4. If you have never voted before at Runboard you must make one post in the vote thread before you can see where to mark who you vote for. If you have voted before, you don't have to post at all.

Thank you so much Kit!

Bag Balm

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:13:32 -0700

It's good to see you back..I was really wondering about you for a LONG time..I'm glad you're still "kickin'" :ang:

This woman

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:14:36 -0700

Has an out of control Vagina. :tease:

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Herman Cain

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:05:12 -0700

I SO hope that these new allegations aren't true..I had such hopes for him. :ohwell:

Facebook Relative

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 16:33:07 -0700

Facebook said you put me down as a relative and they wanted to know how we are related so I made you my grandmother! :cheesygrin:

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Warning on Chicken Jerky Dog Treats from China

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:20:21 -0700

I don't know why we continue to do business with China, it's like they're TRYING to poison us and our pets.

Quote:Chicken jerky treats linked to mystery illnesses, deaths in dogs

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It's not clear why chicken jerky products seem to be causing illnesses and even deaths in dogs, federal Food and Drug Administration officials say.
By JoNel Aleccia

Chicken jerky treats may be to blame for dozens of new reports of mysterious illnesses and some deaths in dogs, prompting a renewed warning for pet owners by the Food and Drug Administration.

At least 70 dogs have been sickened so far this year after reportedly eating chicken jerky products imported from China, FDA officials said. That’s up from 54 reports of illness in 2010. Some of the dogs have died, according to the anecdotal reports from pet owners and veterinarians.

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FDA officials say they have not been able to find a cause for the illnesses. Extensive chemical and microbiological testing has failed to turn up a specific contaminant and officials did not identify a specific brand of treats. They note that the reports of illness have not conclusively been tied to chicken jerky products, also sold as chicken tenders, chicken strips or chicken treats.

The new warning follows previous FDA cautions about chicken jerky treats in 2007 and 2008. But after a high of 156 reports of illness in 2007, the number of complaints dropped. Now, it's rising again.

Dog owners and vets are reporting that animals may be stricken with a range of illnesses within days or hours of eating chicken jerky, including kidney failure and Fanconi syndrome, a condition characterized by low glucose.

Symptoms may include decreased appetite, decreased activity, vomiting, diarrhea, increased water consumption and increased urination. If dogs show any of these signs, stop feeding the animal the chicken jerky products, FDA officials said. If signs are severe or persist for more than 24 hours, seek veterinary help.

Most dogs have recovered, officials said.

Make sure you're prepared

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:53:17 -0700

Iran and Israel might be going to war and anything could happen, make sure you have at least six months worth of EVERYTHING, just in case. I'm not saying that we will be affected by it but one never knows.

Quote:Google releases satellite images of Iranian facilities which UN says may be used to develop nuclear weapons

International Atomic Energy Agency expresses 'serious concerns' about Iran
Agency denied access to Iranian facilities
Report claims Iran could be developing intermediate-range warhead capable of reaching Israel

By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 11:31 AM on 11th November 2011

These are the satellite images being used by the UN to claim that facilities at two Iranian cities may be used to develop nuclear weapons.

Satellite images of Arak and Natanz show changes to the facilities in the areas when compared with images taken in October 2010.

The overhead pictures were released by Google following a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) which expressed 'serious concerns regarding possible military dimensions to Iran's nuclear programme'.
Changes: A satellite image taken in October 2010 shows the facility in Natanz, Iran, previously described as the country's 'biggest nuclear facility'

2010: A satellite image shows the facility in Natanz, Iran, described as the country's 'biggest nuclear facility'

A year on: Sections of road appear to have have been developed or removed and other landscape changes are noticeable in the satellite image taken last month

A year on: Sections of road appear to have have been developed or removed and other landscape changes are noticeable in the satellite image taken last month

The IAEA report released earlier this week states that while some activities in Iran have civilian as well as military applications, others are 'specific to nuclear weapons'.

There were indications in the dossier that the country had conducted detonator development, as well as high explosives testing and electronic modelling of a nuclear warhead core.

The IAEA report, which ‘completely discredits’ the Islamic nation’s protestations of innocence, according to Foreign Secretary William Hague, cites preparatory work for a nuclear weapons test.

Development of an intermediate-range nuclear payload capable of reaching Israel is also in progress, according to the report.
Developed: Further satellite images taken in Arak show various parts of the facility there being changed over the past year

2010: Satellite images of the facility in Arak, home to a heavy water production plant, taken a year ago

Altered: Buildings and plant at the top eft and bottom left appear to have been removed in this year's image of Arak, while there has been new building in the centre of the plant

A year on: Buildings and plant at the top left and bottom left appear to have been removed in this year's image of Arak, while there has been new building in the centre of the plant

Natanz, which features a Fuel Enrichment Plant and Pilot Fuel Enrichment Plant at its site, has been described as 'the facility at the heart of Iran's dispute with the UN'.
KEY FINDINGS IN UN REPORT ON IRANIAN NUCLEAR PROGRAMME

In its latest report on Iran, the UN International Atomic Energy Agency outlines the sum of its knowledge on the Islamic republic's alleged secret nuclear weapons work, including:

Clandestine procurement of equipment and design information needed to make such arms;
High explosives testing and detonator development to set off a nuclear charge;
Computer modelling of a core of a nuclear warhead;
Preparatory work for a nuclear weapons test, and
Developing and mounting a nuclear payload onto its Shahab 3 intermediate range missile - a weapon that can reach Israel, Iran's arch foe.

It is also thought to be the largest nuclear facility in Iran, and has anti-aircraft weapons to defend itself from potential airstrikes.

The town of Arak is home to a heavy-water production plant, which can be used to generate nuclear power.

The IAEA report stated that the agency requested further access to the plant in August, but did not receive a response from Iran.

Instead it has chosen to monitor the facilities from the air via satellite imagery.

It was revealed earlier this week that Israel could launch military action against Iran before Christmas, in a bid to prevent the country from developing a nuclear weapon.

Sources say the understanding at the top of the British Government is that Israel will attempt to strike against the nuclear sites ‘sooner rather than later’ – with logistical support from the U.S.

A senior Foreign Office figure has revealed that ministers have been told to expect Israeli military action, adding: ‘We’re expecting something as early as Christmas, or very early in the new year.’

Officials believe President Barack Obama would have to support the Israelis or risk losing vital Jewish-American support in the next presidential election.

In recent weeks, Ministry of Defence sources confirmed that contingency plans have been drawn up in the event that the UK decided to support military action.

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Man Shot Dead At OccupyVermont

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:24:37 -0700

"A 35-year-old man died of a gunshot wound at the scene of the Occupy Burlington encampment, according to the mayor. Police said it will be several hours before they know more, but did say there is no danger to the public. Police said they have recovered the weapon."

Fatal Shooting At OccupyOakland

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:20:55 -0700

Quote:Our source on the ground at the Occupy Oakland protests sent this video of police and EMTs administering CPR to the victim of a shooting during a protest Saturday afternoon. The shooting happened just before 5 p.m. Thursday on the edge of the plaza outside Oakland City Hill. The Occupy Oakland encampment sits in the middle of the plaza.

The crowd of protesters tried to prevent local news crews from recording the events.

CPR was administered for 15 minutes and the victim was taken to Highland Hospital.

Occupy Oakland attacks Whole Foods Nov 2, 2011

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 21:53:26 -0700

Deaf Man Raped At OccupyWallStreet Protest

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 08:09:12 -0700

Quote:rom Big Government:

Q: You said a deaf guy was raped?
A: Yeah...
Q: Did the guy, I mean, do these, did that get reported to the police, or did that stay inside the camp?
A: Well, OK, I'm not sure for that particular incident. Yeah, no I--that might have stayed inside the camp.

[...]

Today, Big Government is releasing a video filmed yesterday in Zuccotti Park, featuring an activist who has been at the Occupy Wall Street protest since it began. The young woman, whom we believe to be an activist named Channing Kehoe, refers to part of Zuccotti Park as a "ghetto," and discusses the prevalence of drug abuse, sexual assault, rape, and other violent crimes among the demonstrators:

"We’re trying to figure out what to do about [the drugs]...It’s putting all these people in danger--that, there’s sexual assault going on, we’re trying to deal with that...mostly drunk guys, going, groping girls, there was a guy that got raped, too, here--a deaf younger man...

She estimates there have been “at least ten” incidents of sexual assault, and affirms that Occupy Wall Street has been “unsafe for women” for the past three to four weeks.

Bill Ayers Teaches Radical Theory At OccupyChicago

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 22:12:25 -0700

Quote:On October 20th, 2011 #occupychicago invited Domestic Terrorist turned University of Illinois professor, Bill Ayers, to lead a "teach-in" on the virtues of confrontational tactics dubbed "non-violent disobedience" in the anti-capitalist revolution.

Occupy Albuquerque Riots And Mayhem

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 22:09:36 -0700

Quote:Most of these protesters don't understand that they are being played by the organizers. "Occupy Wallstreet" is not a grassroots movement. The former New York office for ACORN, the disbanded community activist group, is playing a key role in the self-proclaimed "leaderless" Occupy Wall Street movement, organizing "guerrilla" protest events and hiring door-to-door canvassers to collect money under the banner of various causes while spending it on protest-related activities. http://citizen23.tk