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Re: Calm before the Storm?

Unread postby Judgie » Sat 04 Aug 2007, 02:58:03

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BastardSquad', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('NotMyBlood', ' ') One day, you wake up and your nephew is at War, your wife is pregnant with no health insurance, the car needs repair from running over a massive pothole, you have 100 bucks in your checking account and the county is asking for more tax revenue......

ARE YOU F**KING RETARDED????!!!!
I hate to be the one to tell you this,but myself,and millions upon millions of other Americans live this reality everyday!We're called the "working poor".
You are so far detached from reality I really don't know what to say!
I'm speechless. :shock:

As are our glorious leaders.
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Re: Calm before the Storm?

Unread postby NotMyBlood » Sat 04 Aug 2007, 04:04:20

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BastardSquad', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('NotMyBlood', ' ') One day, you wake up and your nephew is at War, your wife is pregnant with no health insurance, the car needs repair from running over a massive pothole, you have 100 bucks in your checking account and the county is asking for more tax revenue......

ARE YOU F**KING RETARDED????!!!!
I hate to be the one to tell you this,but myself,and millions upon millions of other Americans live this reality everyday!We're called the "working poor".
You are so far detached from reality I really don't know what to say!
I'm speechless. :shock:

Well, first of all, calm down. No need to jump all over me because your poor. There has always been and always will be a lower economic class. I'm guessing your part of that lower class. I would say that most Americans aren't considered the working poor. Maybe thats all you see. Maybe thats your environment. But the majority of Americans are living comfortable, rich, healthy lives with plenty of money for vacations, healthcare, college tuitions, SUVs, fancy restaurants, fine wine and trips to vegas every other month , etc, etc -- thats part of the problem einstein. So many Americans are living so good were consuming more than our fair share of the Worlds resources. So, instead of the working poor being the minority it will quickly or slowly become the majority which will have all kinds of ramifications.

As we speak, the highway system is working, but its going to get alot worse.
As we speak, most have healthcare insurance. That could be a whole debate though....
As we speak, most people have more than 100 bucks in their checking accounts.
As we speak, most people dont have family in the War.

just wanted to add, its hard NOT to do well in this country. - right now. I think the problem may be people expect so much, for nothing.
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Re: Calm before the Storm?

Unread postby Concerned » Sat 04 Aug 2007, 05:12:04

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('NotMyBlood', 'M')ost people have over $100 in their bank account

Then explain all the consumer/mortgage debt. If I threw all my savings at my home loan I would be way negative.
What percentage of people own their home outright?
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Re: Calm before the Storm?

Unread postby NotMyBlood » Sat 04 Aug 2007, 05:58:22

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Concerned', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('NotMyBlood', 'M')ost people have over $100 in their bank account

Then explain all the consumer/mortgage debt. If I threw all my savings at my home loan I would be way negative.
What percentage of people own their home outright?

I have no idea.....but I dont think there has been a time in modern history that the majority of people owned their home outright. People worked their entire lives to pay off a mortgage. Again, expectations of what people think they 'deserve' is out of whack in this country.

I dont know about consumer debt. From what I read, I guess the average person carries 3-6 k in unsecured debt. I don't like to discuss individual situations. My point in this thread was to acknowledge all the forces/predictions that will undermine the middle class in America and eventually the entire West. These predictions haven't exactly been correct up to this point. The forces that expected to see play out this summer haven't materialized. Which led me to think of the more conservative predictions concerning Peak Oil and the nature of complex societies. Which is a slow decline of the standard of living for the majority of Western Civilization especially the United States.

If you and bastardchild think you have it bad now, I truly feel bad for you, becuase it only gets worse(depending on how you want to look at it) from here on out.
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Re: Calm before the Storm?

Unread postby Cloud9 » Sat 04 Aug 2007, 08:44:44

The lower class already knows where the soup lines are. The middle class does not have a clue.
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Re: Calm before the Storm?

Unread postby Heineken » Sat 04 Aug 2007, 09:25:55

A sudden economic collapse is very possible, when you consider how the whole monstrous thing works (of course, nobody can really explain how it works anymore; it's too complex).

Environmental collapse and human dieoff will be a slower process and will tend to affect different geographic regions at different rates. However, these too could proceed more rapidly than we'd like to believe.

Nuclear war is a strong possibility that could lead to a sudden total collapse, but for some odd reason this calamity is generally discounted by PO.comers.

As mmasters noted, we'll be entering altogether new territory, in which the old rules will no longer apply.

Who knows how it will happen, exactly. What is certain is that it will all be bad and that it will sooner or later come to rest on your own, personal shoulders like a grinning, blood-red raven.
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Re: Calm before the Storm?

Unread postby wankmeister » Sat 04 Aug 2007, 10:41:26

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Gideon', '1')st, to the guy who describes himself as "the working poor", what a glorious age we live in when the working poor have the leisure time and the resources to access and type on the Internet!
I'm sure the historical "poor" of the world would be very happy to know their descendants have ascended to such lofty heights.
Where they toiled to put food in their skinny children's mouths, you [maybe not Bastard Squad, but certainly many "working poor"] are so wealthy that you are 100 pounds overweight and you have access to and time for the Internet.
Wonders wonders.
As for . . .
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '"')You're telling me Bush/Cheney went to all the trouble to involve 3 commericial Airliners , the WTC, thousand of NYFD/NYPD and countless government officials/commands all to have an excuse to invade Afghanistan? you really , truly believe that? - Look, I know how passionate you 9/11 truth movement believers and Rosie Odonnell get, so I really don't want to flame. I'll just say , "No freaking Way". I'll discuss it with you though, maybe in a differetn thread."

I never liked Rosie, but my respect for her went way up after she took her stand.
Look, OP, you're clearly a flag waving American.
I'll try this though, because if you're reading PO.com, then you can't be totally blocked from new thoughts:
You ask "why" Bush et al would want to do that.
You ask this on a Peak Oil forum.
That's like a cheated-on husband standing over the naked body of Brad Pitt and Johnny Depp and asking his also naked wife, "what do you see in these guys?"
Seriously man, you're standing right on top of it.
It's remarkably simple.
It's the end of the Empire because oil is running out.
Brilliantly, I do not have to convince you of that.
So, Bush, Cheney, Rice, and all, who are all intimately aware of all things oil, know that the only way to continue the reighn of the Empire is to secure oil.
So they look around.

Iraq is perfect - 2nd largest proven reserves of top grade oil, largely unexplored, with an easily toppled dictator and a fractious population that will not likely put up a fight after occupation.

So now the American sheeple need to be fired up.
CIA funnels several million dollars to SAs operatives. They find a bunch of fanatics, and the CIA money trains them. Bush's brother is in charge of WTC security. The rest is so easy so as to be silly.

Now, Bush et al just sit back and wait for the "terrorist cell" to carry out the plan. Cheney orders stand down, most national air distracted with other things, and bingo.
I'd say fewer than 20 people would have to know.
Maybe even 10, if you had the right people in the CIA.
Really not hard, really not expensive.
The only thing that you're having trouble with is the fact that they WOULD do it.

So, after 911, Afghanistan gets invaded immediately.
Why?
Oil pipeline route, it flanks Iran and the rest of the oil rich reason, it keeps China and Russia out. It's a good target.
Then, with Americans still pissed off about the WTC, an excuse is totally fabricated to invade Iraq - the real prize.

And how much convincing did the generally ignorant American sheeple take? Not much at all.
I'd bet 95% of Ameridiots couldn't find Iraq on a map.
I'd bet 99% of Ameridiots don't currently know that Iraq never had - by Bush's account - anything to do with terrorism. Nothing at all.

No. Instead - the ridiculous line that is feed to the Sheeple is that the U.S. is there to "protect the world and spread democracy."
Hah!!!
Yes. As long as you have oil - then we'll come save you.
And yet 3 thousand Americans are dead and 1/2 a million Iraqis.
Democracy, apparantly, comes at the cost of a mini-genocide.
Saddam himself could not have aspired to 1/2 a million dead.

So, OP, you're sitting on your answer.
It's incredibly obvious.
It's ALL ABOUT OIL.
Bush needed an excuse to go to where the oil was. He knew damn well that the American public - EVEN IN ITS STUPOR - would not send kids off to die without first being fired up.

911 was perfect.
Bush has been happy to let 3,000 U.S. kids die in the sand. He'll be perfectly happy to let another 50,000 die in the sand to guard the oil.
Why is it so hard for you to believe that he wasn't perfectly happy to have 2,500 or so die in the WTC in order to make it happen?
Oh course he was. He [they] sacrificed a few citizens.

The pay back?
Carte f**king blanche to invade the world.
Now every speech that he gives is 911 this and WTC that and Al Queda this.
You're just a monkey being fed cheese.
You hear "911" and your dander gets up and you're ready to invade [iran, syria, nigeria, venezuela].
It's clear as day what the motivation was.

It's clear as day that the 911 inside job was a total success.

It's clear as day that most Americans no longer understand that there was no connection to Iraq.
It's even more clear that 911 was the pretext on which the war on the world's oil production would be based.
And you here at a Peak Oil site and a citizen of the Empire not seeing the obvious connection! Shame on you!

[personal note - I always found it odd that the "terrorists" chose 8:45Am as the time to strike. In another 2 hours, the death toll would have doubled.]


First, let me say that I'm no fan of Bush & friends. I think he's, at best, guilty of horrible judgement. At worst, he's a war criminal on a par with Hitler, Pol Pot, etc. That being said, I have to take issue with the "911 truth" conspiracy theorists. I'm not saying it's not possible that it was an inside job. And yes, I think Bush and Cheany pissed themselves with glee when 911 happened. They may have even had prior knowledge. But, I'm saying that there is not even the slightest trace of evidence. You and your ilk have absolutely no basis to declare, with absolute certainty, that Bush did 911. How the f**k would you know? Because you don't like his politics? Because he's a buffoon who can hardly get through a sentence without making an idiot of himself? Because he's brought the world to the brink of destruction? Yes, he's a horrible president, but to tell people "shame on you".....or to stand up on national tv and point fingers (Rosie)....you have no proof....if you do, post it.
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Re: Calm before the Storm?

Unread postby TheTurtle » Sat 04 Aug 2007, 11:03:28

WARNING! Do NOT discuss 9/11 any further in this thread. Any such discussion will be deleted.

If you wish to discuss 9/11 conspiracy theories, there is a thread for that purpose: 9/11 Speculation. Please use it.
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Re: Calm before the Storm?

Unread postby mel1962 » Sat 04 Aug 2007, 21:23:11

I am grilling steaks on the Q, I make 6 figures and all my department has plenty of work despite the fact everyone else is laying off or transferring to other offices! Happy Days are here again! [smilie=qgreenjumpers.gif]

But, yet I feel impending doom and this is a real feeling! [smilie=XXeyeslam.gif]

I know what is going to happen and have positioned by department to take advantage of the situation. But, I must watch others commit career and financial sucide because they refuse to recognize reality or listen to my advice! [smilie=pottytrain5.gif]

Oh well, party on dudes! [smilie=occasion14.gif]
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Re: Calm before the Storm?

Unread postby TreebeardsUncle » Sun 05 Aug 2007, 03:35:12

So, when will the recession come (200) and when will gas get to $5/gallon (2010) etc. ?
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Re: Calm before the Storm?

Unread postby mel1962 » Sun 05 Aug 2007, 11:26:39

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TreebeardsUncle', 'S')o, when will the recession come (200) and when will gas get to $5/gallon (2010) etc. ?


Its already begun, the fed is going to have to lower rates and increase inflation to get us out of this mess! :(

But, areas of growth are developing because of PO, energy(conventional and alternate) and shipping (rail and ships)! [smilie=5clock.gif]
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Re: Calm before the Storm?

Unread postby evilgenius » Sun 05 Aug 2007, 11:30:54

Just watch, no one will know what to do.
When it comes down to it, the people will always shout, "Free Barabbas." They love Barabbas. He's one of them. He has the same dreams. He does what they wish they could do. That other guy is more removed, more inscrutable. He makes them think. "Crucify him."
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Re: Calm before the Storm?

Unread postby TreebeardsUncle » Sun 05 Aug 2007, 23:12:22

Well, drilling rig companies stock peaked back around the 24th when Transocean bought out GSF. Other oil companies like BHI which had a max on July 13 or so peaked earlier.

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