Guest Posted September 17, 2004 Report Share Posted September 17, 2004 GREENSPIN BY RAISING FED-FUNDS IS ACTUALLY PREVENTING DEFLATION . THE ABOVE CONCLUSION APPEARS COUNTER-INTUITIVE AT FIRST . PLEASE CONSIDER 2-POINTS BELOW . 1.) 10-YR T-rates have been coming down 2.) Higher short term rates support the $-buck and keep foreign credits flowing . GREENSPIN ONLY PARTIALLY SUCCESSFUL, WITH THIS FLIM-FLAM SCHEME OF PROCLAIMING DANGER OF INFLATION, WHILE TRYING TO AVOID DEFLATION !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orvack Posted September 17, 2004 Report Share Posted September 17, 2004 This is supposed to be an amazing documentary The Fence (W-FIVE Presents)SAT SEPT 18 at 10pm - Alexandre Trudeau's The Fence Airs Saturday, September 18 on CTV -Trudeau tells the intimate tale of two families on the opposing sides of the security barrier. Toronto, Ontario (September 3, 2004) - "I may love this place for its beauty, for its history, for its power," says Alexandre Trudeau. "But I loathe it for its incessant reminder of the continued failure of the human spirit." Trudeau recently spent a season working and living with families in the West Bank and has chronicled that experience in his latest documentary The Fence. Written, produced and narrated by Trudeau, The Fence is the intimate tale of two families on opposing sides of the security barrier in the Jenin-Afula area. Today, CTV announced that The Fence will premiere Saturday, September 18 at 10 p.m. ET (check local listings). As a filmmaker, Trudeau's trademark is first hand coverage in conflict-ridden areas such as Iraq and Liberia. In this one-hour documentary, he takes viewers into the midst of the West Bank where the Israelis have erected a massive fence between themselves and the Palestinians with the hope of eliminating the violence and suicide bombings from the Palestinian side. "I have been on both sides of that fence," says Trudeau. "I have laughed with the people there and shared their fears and frustrations. They are just people." Trudeau brings viewers the human face of this conflict and how the people are coping with the enduring hostilities. A complex mix of people and emotions, Trudeau's subjects include the Atars who, because of the fence, are able to momentarily forget that Israel is such a troubled place. Rami, their best employee who has become trapped on the Israeli side of the fence, unable to return home because once he crosses to the other side he will not be permitted to return to work and support his family. Areen, whose hometown of Jenin was once a quiet place and is now a chaotic city made up of closed stores, bad roads, random gunshots and terror. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrStool Posted September 17, 2004 Report Share Posted September 17, 2004 T Minus One and Counting Monday Is The Day Your Anals are loaded. Take a subscribatory and download RIGHT NOW! 30 Day Intro Subscribatory. Just $16.99! Get In RIGHT NOW! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 17, 2004 Report Share Posted September 17, 2004 Israel has repeatedly warned that it may sooner or later take direct action to stop an Iranian nuclear bomb "going critical". As Amos Perlmutter, Michael Handel and Uri Bar-Joseph recount in their book Two Minutes over Baghdad, the Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, was once part of a three-man inner circle that kept even the very sympathetic administration of President Ronald Reagan completely in the dark as they planned and carried out the daring 1981 airstrike on Iraq's Osirak nuclear plant. That exploit had little visible fallout. But a repeat performance against Iran today would be universally perceived as American in spirit, even if exclusively Israeli in execution, and the whole Middle Eastern mess which America came to Iraq to clean up would instantly cross a new threshold in scale, virulence and unpredictability. http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,12858,1305541,00.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The brown one Posted September 17, 2004 Report Share Posted September 17, 2004 Ivan pictures http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2...tent_375194.htm How come the pics of IVAN aftermath were in the Chinadaily? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lock Limit Down Posted September 17, 2004 Report Share Posted September 17, 2004 More violence and bombing in Iraq http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/iraq Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hiding Bear Posted September 17, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 17, 2004 Thinking I'd missed something....I just got off the phone with my MP-we currently have 7 to 10 U.S. Military members some with their families seeking refugee status in Canada. Some came back from Iraq and came here, others were to be deployed there and came here. They are still here after many months going thru Immigration appeals which as I said previously can go on for years. They like others are allowed to work as they go thru the hoops. There has been no agreement signed with the U.S. that would mean their automatic return. Martin could sign such an agreement but I doubt he would, being smart he would bring it before Parliament and I doubt it would get passed. Canada is not anti a just war but is anti folly. Iraq one and Afghanistan had our full participation but Nam and Iraq 2 did not. In reference to Immigration sure marry a Canuck and you are in, Doctors, Engineers, Scientists, Registered Nurses, Entrepreneurs with money all get a free pass. Got a Canadian relative who can sponsor and will be responsible for you again pretty much a free pass. There are over 300 occupations and categories listed that require only being hired and sponsored by a Canadian Company. Having said all that the "refugee " route is the most popular there are apparently about 2 hundred thousand of those claims backlogged now and those folk are living and working here. Those with criminal records or terrorism ties can forget about it, they go right back where they from but that policy only came in after 911. Citizenship can be acquired in 3 years and in some cases within a year. Tanks B4, that is very informative. How about if you are married to an RN? Correct me if I am wrong, but your part of Canada appears to have the most moderate weather, which is a plus to me. However, it also seems that housing prices are very high - although I believe they were already high for Canada even before the last few years RE boom. Also correct me if I am wrong there. I have two sons and they probably will be approaching the draft age just when the draft may get going in earnest - should GWB win. Maybe even if he doesn't too. As much Kerry became well known for his anti-war effort in Vietnam days, his objections to the current situation is less than keen. Looking back to Clinton, we saw that he continued pretty much what was started before him in Iraq - regular bombing attacks on 'radar bases'. Maybe Kerry will continue what was started too, until casualties become too great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tchaikofsky Posted September 17, 2004 Report Share Posted September 17, 2004 Sox and Yanks in Noo Yawk. Does it get any more provincial than that in MLB? I think not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
machinehead Posted September 17, 2004 Report Share Posted September 17, 2004 As you relax tonight, give a thought to the grim plight of Mad Al. He is like a man adrift at sea with no fresh water. Let me explain. Al's running a $1.3 trillion commodity pool (the custody account). The commodity is U.S. Treasurys. Their prices are being pegged at 1.5% on the short end, and 4.2% on the long (10-year) end. However, there are two problems. Let's take the less serious problem first. As every commodity pool from the tin cartel to the Intl. Coffee Org. to OPEC has proven, a pool CAN'T survive without enforcing production discipline. Unfortunately, the Treasury is expanding the supply of U.S. debt at about 10% annually. And the Fed has no control over that. Convincing the Asian members to keep escalating their contributions to the pool, while the U.S. refuses to exert any fiscal discipline, is ultimately a losing proposition. It starts to look self serving. The more serious problem is that the entire $1.3 trillion custody account serves as reserves for the expansion of foreign (mainly developed Asian) money supplies. So what, you say? In a world with free movement of goods and capital, we're all competing for the same goods and assets. Growth of the global money supply produces global inflation. Look at the price of oil, for instance. And as inflation rises, yields on Treasurys should rise also. But Mad Al is trying to peg yields by pooling more and more Treasurys -- which only increases the inflationary pressure. So Mad Al is like the fellow on the lifeboat, driven nuts by thirst, who starts gulping salt water. No matter how much salt water he swallows, he can never "catch up with" or satiate his thirst. He can only accelerate his doom. And on that mournful note, I will hoist another beer -- to you, Mad Al! To your magnificent futility!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The End Posted September 17, 2004 Report Share Posted September 17, 2004 G will go down in american history as the worst chairman of the Fed ever. I am in a great mood for some reason (it is rare). Dead kennedy's M tv get off the year. At my job next. Fun Fun Fun in the fluffy chair Flame up the herb Woof down the beer [click!] Hi I'm your video DJ I always talk like I'm wigged out on quaaludes I wear a satin baseball jacket everywhere I go My job is to help destroy What's left of your imagination By feeding you endless doses Of sugar-coated mindless garbage So don't create Be sedate Be a vegetable at home And thwack on that dial If we have our way even you will believe This is the future of rock and roll How far will you go How low will you stoop To tranquilize our minds with your sugar-coated swill You've turned rock and roll rebellion Into Pat Boone sedation Making sure nothing's left to the imagination M.T.V. Get off the M.T.V. Get off the M.T.V. Get off the air Get off the air See the latest rejects from the muppet show Wag their tits and their dicks As they lip-synch on screen There's something I don't like About a band who always smiles Another tax write-off For some schmuck who doesn't care M.T.V. Get off the air And so it was Our beloved corporate gods Claimed they created rock video Allowing it to sink as low in one year As commercial TV has in 25 'It's the new frontier,' they say It's wide open, anything can happen But you've got a lot of nerve To call yourself a pioneer When you're too g-d-damn conservative To take real chances. Tin-eared Graph-paper brained accountants Instead of music fans Call all the shots at giant record companies now The lowest common denominator rules Forget honesty Forget creativity The dumbest buy the mostest That's the name of the game But sales are slumping And no one will say why Could it be they put out one too many lousy records! M.T.V.-Get off the air! NOW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The End Posted September 17, 2004 Report Share Posted September 17, 2004 Both off the Frankenchrist album 1985 Decay music. If your machine might slip a gear Push this button to help it clear Your time card says your name's Joe But we'll call you 6-3-0 [Chorus] I'm working at my job I'm so happy More boring by the day But they pay me All that time spent going to school Just to end up following-rules [Chorus] Now it's time to take a break Don't stray too far or you'll be late Thank you for your service and a long career Glad you gave us your best years [Chorus] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The End Posted September 17, 2004 Report Share Posted September 17, 2004 Same album/ Stars and stripes of corruption. Finally got to Washington in the middle of the night I couldn't wait I headed straight for the Capitol Mall My heart began to pound Yahoo! It really exists The American International Pictures logo I looked up at that Capitol Building Couldn't help but wonder why I felt like saying 'Hello, old friend' Walked up the hill to touch it Then I unzipped my pants And pissed on it when nobody was looking Like a great eternal Klansman With his two flashing red eyes Turn around he's always watching The Washington monument pricks the sky With flags like pubic hair ringed 'round the bottom The symbols of our heritage Lit up proudly in the night Somehow fits to see the homeless people Passed out on the lawn So this is where it happens The power games and bribes All lobbying for a piece of ass Of the stars and stripes of corruption Makes me feel so ashamed To be an American When we're too stuck up to learn from our mistakes Trying to start another Viet Nam Whilke fiddling while Rome burns at home The Boss says, 'You're laid off. Blame the Japanese' 'America's back,' alright At the game it plays the worst Strip mining the world like a slave plantation No wonder others hate us And the Hitlers we handpick To bleed their people dry For our evil empire The drug we're fed To make us like it Is God and country with a band People we know who should know better Howl, 'America riles. Let's go to war!' Business scams are what's worth dying for Are the Soviets our worst enemy We're destroying ourselves instead Who cares about our civil rights As long as I get paid The blind Me-Generation Doesn't care if life's a lie so easily used, so proud to enforce The stars and stripes of corruption Let's bring it all down! Tell me who's the real patriots The Archie Bunker slobs waving flags Or the people with the guts to work For some real change Rednecks and bombs don't make us strong We loot the world, yet we can't even feed ourselves Our real test of strength is caring Not the toys of war we sell the world Just carry on, thankful to be farmed like worms Old glory for a blanket As you suck on your thumbs Real freedom scares you 'Cos it means responsibility So you chicken out and threaten me Saying, 'Love it or leave it' I'll get beat up if I criticize it You say you'll fight to the death To save your useless flag If you want a banana republic that bad Why don't you go move to one But what can just one of us do Against all that money and power Trying to crush us into roaches We don't destroy society in a day Until we change ourselves first From the inside out We can start by not lying so much And treating other people like dirt It's easy not to base our lives On how much we can scam And you know It feels good to lift that monkey off our backs I'm thankful I live in a place Where I can say the things I do Without being taken out and shot So I'm on guard against the goons Trying to take my rights away We've got to rise above the need for cops and laws Let kids learn communication Instead of schools pushing competition How about more art and theater instead of sports People will always do drugs Let's legalize them Crime drops when the mob can't price them Budget's in the red Let's tax religion No one will do it for us We'll just have to fix ourselves Honesty ain't all that hard Just put Rambo back inside your pants Causing trouble for the system is much more fun Thank you for the toilet paper But your flag is meaningless to me Look around, we're all people Who needs countries anyway Our land, I love it too I think I love it more than you I care enough to fight The stars and stripes of corruption Let's bring it all down! If we don't try If we just lie If we can't find A way to do it better than this Who will Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustbowl Posted September 18, 2004 Report Share Posted September 18, 2004 This is way off-topic. Does anyone have any experience with Acura cars? I'm looking for a new car and have my eye on the Acura TSX. TIA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butterfield 8 Posted September 18, 2004 Report Share Posted September 18, 2004 So are we going to start a thread on LOB on escape destinations? I will, if there are no takers, but I haven't a clue how to move the posts. anybody? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 18, 2004 Report Share Posted September 18, 2004 Playing With Trains On LOB Click Here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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