Comments on: It’s Time to Dump the Fed

By: Electronhauler

Electronhauler — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:08:38 +0000

Welcome to Libertarianism!

By: Mulga Mumblebrain

Mulga Mumblebrain — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:58:04 +0000

Well Don, we’ve got a ‘once in a hundred year’ drought, only its permanent. It looks like about twelve years ago, just when Climate Change Denialist, racist and all round Rightwing poltroon John Howard came to power, old Gaia decided to teach us a lesson. Rainfall dried up across the southern half of the country, and it hasn’t recovered. What rivers we do have, and the seasonal wet-lands, are stuffed. Water-bird populations have plummeted, salinity is up, old red-gums are dying en masse, and things are crook.The northern half is getting wetter, a disjunction explained by some climatologists as the tropics expanding. The corollary is that the high pressure systems that usually pass just below the continent, are passing further south, pushing the lows that normally bring rains further south, and dragging cold air up from Antarctica. So the last few winters have been cold and dry, the last few summers hot, as ever, and dry, apart from occasional outbreaks of tropical moisture making their way down. So, if things proceed along this path ‘we’ll all be rooned’, as Hanrahan said. Serves us right for keeping Howard in office for eleven long, dreadful, years.

By: siamdave

siamdave — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:54:22 +0000

It’s time to do a lot more than dump the fed. The problem is systemic, and it’s time we took control of ‘our’ money out of the hands of the banks. For the full story, have a read of Banketeering - how the banks have been stealing trillions from you, and the tap is still running http://www.rudemacedon.ca/dlp/box/box01-money.html - for some things you won’t hear on any of the mainstream media, and even the ‘progressives’ don’t seem that aware of a lot of this yet. Time everybody started understanding what’s happening here, and then we can talk about fixing some things.

By: Don Hawkins

Don Hawkins — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:33:19 +0000

Here is what I have seen the last few years in the Southeast United States. I lived in Florida on the coast in 2005. That was real fun. No electricity for about 6 weeks after one Hurricane and we were the lucky ones. Then the insurance on my house went up 2 times. I got out and moved to Georgia, South Georgia. Well last summer drought then the fires to my South worst in 75 years. To my North drought yes you could certainly say that. Atlanta was down to about 3 months of water. Right now North Carolina, Alabama still extreme drought. That could change as the forecast for this Hurricane season is for above average. Record snow right now in the Northern States. Warmer air to the South and the storms coming into the Northwest are unreal then move East. Oh I almost forgot here in the South Spring what Spring maybe 5 days of Spring if you call it that then summer. Let’s just say all that snow up North has a very good chance of melting a little to fast. If that does happen what is the price of wheat, corn now? More people are saying we need to slow down until we can slow it down, I agree. It’s interesting the way this is going. What Mike wrote is true and we could go into a recession or worst not because of climate change but because lazy is a good word and greedy is a good word nuts fits very well and what is causing climate change all those things. You know we use 1.3 planets of stuff right now. I mean even if we used one Planet of stuff it will not work out well but Oh no we need an extra third of a planet right now to keep us going that’s where the nuts part comes in. Yes a good old fashion Depression just might have a lot of side benifits.

By: Don Hawkins

Don Hawkins — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 02:41:40 +0000

Mulga you are there in a part of the World that is now seeing climate change first hand. I can read about it you are there. Can you tell me what you see in the last few years.

By: Don Hawkins

Don Hawkins — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 02:29:14 +0000

In talking about human rights today, we are referring primarily to the following demands: protection of the individual against arbitrary infringement by other individuals or by the government; the right to work and to adequate earnings from work; freedom of discussion and teaching; adequate participation of the individual in the formation of his government. These human rights are nowadays recognised theoretically, although, by abundant use of formalistic, legal manoeuvres, they are being violated to a much greater extent than even a generation ago. (Albert Einstein, 1954)
I wonder what Einstein might say if he could see today’s World?

By: Mulga Mumblebrain

Mulga Mumblebrain — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 02:13:12 +0000

I believe the unfolding financial implosion is a cause for celebration, not angst. I know it is more likely that a full-blown financial depression will provoke more openly fascist rule, and more murderous policies in the global periphery. Indeed the UN World Food Program has just announced it is to ’scale back’ its food programs in the poor world, due to rising food prices as grain is diverted to ethanol programs to fuel US SUVs. Undoubtedly this long-awaited Malthusian solution to poor world ‘over-population’ will unfold and deepen, and economic calamity will only worsen the situation.
However, even though the transnational parasite class is capable of any depravity, our one small hope of redemption from this genocidal system lies in its collapse. If we somehow ‘muddle through’ by the bulk of the world’s population bailing-out the financial parasite class, we simply put off the evil hour of ecological collapse, and worsen its eventual impact. The economic system currently imploding is based on environmental destruction, the devastation of entire countries and the extermination of billions of ‘useless eaters’. We must, I believe, embrace and welcome the collapse of a totally evil system.