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I do not like Islam very much. This is a dangerous thing to write these days. I do not believe that whatever benefits Islam brings outweigh the costs. I do not like that the West cannot reconcile that it too, does not like Islam very much- and pretends that it actually does, against all reason.
It is also not popular to mention that Europeans are by any measure, being slowly replaced in their own countries. Whether you wish to call it a genocide, a great replacement, or merely the natural cultural enrichment of multiculturalism, doesn't really matter now. Hard left activists openly demand the extermination of White people. This is not satire. These people want you dead.
Islam also wants you dead, or subjugated.
Our leaders bleat on about a religion of peace and diversity, all the while our newspapers avoid reporting that the Quilliam Foundation found that 84% of the perpetrators of gang rape in the United Kingdom are Pakistani.
Some of these men quite blatantly tell us that their reasoning was that they chose their white, teenage victims- who number in the many thousands- because they are white. Little white slags, they say.The British Police did nothing for many years and despite being in full awareness of these most heinous crimes. Why did the police ignore the rape of children? Because they were afraid of being called racist if they did their sworn duty and arrested these racist gangs of rapists.
This spineless mentality is now infecting most Western countries.
A failed improvised bomb attack at New York's Port Authority Station earlier this month was yet another opportunity for a multitude of New Yorkers to prove their fabled fortitude. Ah, he didn't stop us from going about our daily lives, this is New York. Fools!
"You got to live your life," she said. "You got to work. You can't stay locked up in your house all the time." — Port Authority Bombing Witness
Yes, but what does your life mean? What is your life worth to your political masters? What is it worth to you?
The bomber, from Bangladesh, cited that the United States had recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel as his motive for trying to assassinate civilians. Blue check verified Twitterati instantly took to the internet to stand in solidarity with Muslims. As we all know thanks to a decade or more of indoctrination, blowing your own testicles off while trying to murder people going to work is nothing to do with Islam.
Ah, that dastardly devil Donald J. Trump. Always at the root of everything when you look hard enough, like a Scooby-Doo Villain camped out at the old haunted White House amusement arcade.
The newspapers reported that the bomber is actually from Brooklyn. They lied.He is not from Brooklyn. He is a Muslim from Bangladesh who hates Jews.
This issue surely transcends the petty bourgeois squeals of racism that emanate from the wealthy left, who never seem to live in the areas enriched by diversity. The conflict with Islam, this centuries-old clash of civilizations- it will outlive us all.
Ignore people who say, "well, since Sept.11, it's actually not Muslims, the far right, etc." They are liars.
It will outlive us all because whether we like it or not, the dreaded Alt-Right has got at least one thing absolutely right. People of European descent are slowly but surely being replaced.
As we are replaced by migrants from the Islamic World, we might find ourselves asking the question; 'Why?' Why must we be replaced? Why don't I recognize my country anymore? Why does the crescent moon of Islam rise where the Cross of Jesus stood? Where is our church? Where are our leaders? Why does the Pope lie and capitulate?
What did we do that was so wrong that we must die?
Fortunately, the advocates of unending immigration have the answers for us- Liberal elitists are here to save the day.
Communists and groups calling themselves 'Stand Up To Racism' (actually just Neo-Marxist activists) will tell you it is because of our colonial past. We must pay for the sins of our evil ancestors- but nobody says to the Turkish;
"Hey, Turk- your grandfather drove the Armenians into the desert. That is genocide. Hey Turk, the Ottoman Empire was an imperialist, conquering power for six hundred years. You must pay for those sins."
It is the responsibility of the West to allow all people to enter our nations and become citizens because we are liberal and everyone is equal. To question this means you are a racist. Other countries are poorer than us, so we must allow their peoples to benefit from our wealth. We should share with them. We should give in to them.
Why? With all due respect to the peoples of the world, why should the West, which has ascended through great hardship, merely hand others our spoils? If you are to respond like this, you will be called selfish. It is selfish to want to maintain your culture, it is selfish not to want to pay for others to live and contribute nothing.
It is not selfish to go to another country and demand they look after you, even though you are not a refugee. Even though you are in a multitude, even though you harbour terrorists among you, even though you are unable to comprehend that women are free people. Even though you find yourself having a sexual emergency and thus raping a child, or a mother, or a teenager, or an activist who works for your interests. Even when you murder her. Even when you lie about your age to gain sympathy and leniency from a nation that is altruistic to a fault.
That is not selfish. No, it is the Westerners who are the selfish ones. It is their duty to accept you all into their lands. To complain is racist.
Cultural enrichment has become a meme. Every time another truck of peace murders our children we joke with gallows humour about how we are culturally enriched. Proponents will argue that we have such great cuisine now. How dare you oppose unending, ceaseless, brutal, civilisation destroying migration.
You ate a curry last night so you cannot complain.
It is preposterous to think that we are unable to follow a recipe to produce food from other countries- coming to think about it, do not Neo-Marxists accuse people of cultural appropriation for doing just that? All the more reason to enliven ones' taste buds with exotic foods, then. No, this line of reasoning makes no sense- not only this, it reveals the asinine and frankly racist belief prevalent among many that the only thing the immigrant can do is make food for us. It should not even be an argument, but here we are, discussing whether we should accept off-duty soldiers being beheaded in the street because the perpetrator comes from Nigeria, and the Nigerian migrants bring whatever food they eat in Nigeria for us to enjoy.
Don't complain about migration. We have an international food fair.
Multiculturalism is just better.
We live in a Multiculture. This means there is no British culture. As Lauren Southern discovered, all it takes to be British is a British passport. However, it is not so that we can go to China and become Chinese. That's ridiculous. We are told that we have always been nations of immigrants, but that is also a lie.
So prevalent is this narrative that despite not having any major immigration for nearly 900 years between 1066 and 1945, most Britons believe we are a nation of immigrants. Of course we are! Angles, Jutes, Saxons, Norse, Norman, and so on. So pervasive is the idea of an immigrant nation that the most recent article I found in the mainstream media refuting this lie is over ten years old.
The idea that a multicultural society is better than one dominated by a single culture would have merit if there was give-and-take between the cultures. Now, the leftists out there will bleat 'Ah ha! colonialism!' And I will say, no. We've covered colonialism. If you only care about an issue when white people do it- you are a racist bigot. In a multiculture, we have seen only that the host nation must give up parts of its culture to accommodate the interlopers. The cultures that move in have to give up nothing. We host nations will provide housing, money, education- protection. All for free.
What are we given in return? What benefit? Over 17 years, migration to the UK from outside the European Union cost the nation over £120 billion. The report that showed these statistics was effectively buried by the British Government; statistics produced in the subsequent years have been massaged to the point of irrelevancy and illegibility, to protect the only thing that matters- the narrative.
If there's no financial benefit, no cultural benefit, no ethical or moral compulsion, and by any metric immigration from outside the West has simply made our lives worse: What argument is left?
We are getting old.
Now we come to the bones. We all know that we live in so-called ageing societies. We are told it every day, that we are getting older; so we need migrants.
"Ha ha ha ha all the whites are dead. Except this one. We keep him alive for the virtue points."
This is a lie, brought about by an addiction to Neoliberal Capitalism. Let me explain.
Neoclassical economics -which is the underlying theory of Neoliberalism- essentially requires permanent growth. This is why we are in a Boom/Bust economy; capitalism is imperfect, and the imperfections in the economic system lead to catastrophic failures every now and then. Capitalism is still the best system we have- I contend however that Neoliberalism has outlived its purpose.
During the banking crisis of 2008, the banking cartels demanded money from nation states to pay for their mistakes. The nations, being funded by the taxes of the people, paid the ransom. That is a fundamentally socialist act. Neoliberalism was subverted to cover up the failure of neoliberalism. Under truly capitalist methods, the banks should have been allowed to fall. Yes, it would have caused chaos. Yes, it would have been hard. But we would have been freed from this sick mentality of permanent, unending expansion.
Neoliberalism cannot comprehend resources. It deals only with manpower and end product. This means that in order to deal with the demographic effects of capitalism, which are long life and low birthrate, it needs immigration. Without population growth, there will not be enough taxation raised to provide the state pensions.
The world's governments know that the plebians will accept many things. We will not accept the disrespect of our parents, as Theresa May has found to her cost. There would be a revolution if people were taxed and worked like churls their whole lives, and then receive nothing but a raised middle finger from the tax man when it comes time for us to retire.
To avoid this eventuality, our leaders have gambled that huge migration is a better bet than fixing the system. It is better. For them. Not for you. Not for me. For them.
All that replacement migration does is kick the problem of elderly care down the line for a few years while importing the enriching qualities of the third world. The present political class cares about nothing but retaining power, right now. Not good governance or the future of the nation. Replacement migration is barely even an understood policy- it happens because these imbeciles are too dense to consider the ramifications.
But this also is not enough of an answer; if it were solely about replacing our elderly, the richer European nations could have encouraged migration from poorer ones. Spain. Greece. Poland. Italy. All of southern and central Europe suffered in the aftermath of the banking cartel's thievery, in the form of huge youth unemployment. These people were left to rot on the workless streets of Valencia, Athens, Warsaw. The richer nations of Europe did not even think to encourage their immigration.
We could make starting families easier, through governmental policy. Most people in the West want to have children, despite being assaulted with propaganda that we are committing a planet-destroying evil if we do.
Appeals to morality from the most unethical scum of the planet. Hilarious.
Because here is a startling fact. You need money to migrate. You cannot emigrate from the ghetto while you earn a ghetto wage. So where are all these migrants coming from, and how? Money talks. Always. So the kids of Portugal did not come to London. The young Greeks did not go to Berlin.
Instead, we imported Islam.
Either our leaders did not know the consequences, or they did not care. In any case, replacement migration to prop up neoliberal capitalism is a band-aid. It can only be temporary, as the migrants, if they work and contribute, will be entitled to be cared for in their old age, just like any other citizen. So what happens then? We will need even more migrants. Every year the Germans become less German. Every year the French are less French. Every year the Britons wither. Every year the Swedes are dying out.
What number will be the tipping point for your country?
The only conclusion is that there is some other ideological reason at play, or we are being led by the most ignorant buffoons imaginable. Either we need to stop having babies to save the planet, or we need more people to support the ageing society. It cannot be both.
It is a Neo-Marxist tactic to destroy us to claim that this is so.
The betrayal of our culture by our elected leaders is why the West is lost. We can find it again. We can change the path we are on, but none of us can do it alone. It is time that we take responsibility for our future and our own minds. It is time for you to learn about what your culture is and what is happening to it. What is being done to it.
And when you see what is happening, and what is being done, will you not feel sick? Will you not feel betrayed? If you think that what is being done to Paris, to London, to New York, to Barcelona; if you think that is enriching, then we are enemies. I do not wish to live in a world where my children are slaves. I will not accept that we Europeans are worthless people who are somehow inferior to other races, and it doesn't matter if we become extinct.
Coming soon to a city near you.
Do you see how the Alt-Right grows? It's because people who are centrists will not engage this problem. The evidence for this to be true is insurmountable. If you want to fight the Nazis in your closet and under your bed, you have to accept that these people are not incorrect on this topic- at least in the assessment of the situation. What can you say otherwise? I await any liberal writer to prove me wrong on any of these points- to date, all I am shown are lies. No one can disprove this analysis.
I really wish someone would. I would sleep better. I would feel better about the future for our children. I wish there were some easy answers, that for whatever reason I had simply strayed down an intellectual dead end and become what the left already call me; a bigot, an Islamophobe. Still, for all the name calling, nobody can answer my question.
How are we to avoid the future certainty that we, as a civilization, are going to experience sectarian violence that will make Northern Ireland look like a street party celebrating a Royal Wedding? What kind of action we must take, I do not know. That is for all of us to decide- though time is short and getting shorter.
Slowly with time the past slips away
But deep in our souls their memory stays
Weapons of guilt won't conquer our minds
Just strengthen our will to defy
The ignorant void ever opening wide
But we keep their names and spirits alive
Arrows of fear won't pierce our minds
Just strengthen our will to defy ~ Rudyard Kipling


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Safe in Your Arms
"Safe In Your Arms is the long-awaited new release by pianist/composer Scott Cossu. One of the founders of the new age music genre (giving it a jazz and world music influence) and one of the first artists to join the Windham Hill roster of artists, Cossu has had a long and varied career. It is interesting to note that early on, George Winston opened for Scott in concert and the two toured and performed together for several years.
The music on Safe In Your Arms is a combination of new compositions and newly re-recorded pieces from older albums that have gone out of print. Joining Cossu and his piano are long-time collaborator guitarist Van Manakas, flute and harmonica wizard John Croarkin, and alto flutist Ann Lindquist. Cossu says in the liner notes: "These new compositions will hopefully take you to a place of tranquility. My goal was to produce a recording of tender lullabies and ballads, which returns to a signature musical style that I loved yesterday, as well as today." Inspired in part by his two "adorable granddaughters," heartwarming photos of Scott and the two little girls at the piano grace the cover and liner notes booklet. I should also mention that I started listening to this album in my wake-up alarm. It usually woke me up when the music started, but then I drifted right back off to sleep, so this is VERY soothing and relaxing music!
Safe In Your Arms begins with the title tune, a sweetly lyrical piece that features piano, guitar, and flute. Graceful and overflowing with tenderness, it's a lovely start. "Angel Steps" continues in a similar vein, a beautiful trio where the lead is the magical voice of three musical artists playing from the heart. "Fawn" originally appeared on Cossu's 1984 release, Islands. Gently flowing and jazz-tinged, it's great to have this piece available again! "Little Sunshine Girl" features some beautiful acoustic guitar by Van Manakas in addition to piano and flute - love it! "Purple Mountain," a Cossu classic that originally appeared on his 1981 Wind Dance, is as fresh and alive as it was almost 35 years ago. "Gwenlaise" is also classic Cossu and is a piece he often performs in concert. Originally recorded in 1986 with cellist Eugene Friesen, this new arrangement is a gorgeous trio for piano, guitar, and flute. "A Child's Eyes," from 1989's Switchback includes some haunting harmonica by John Croarkin, an artist I had the pleasure of hosting in concert with Scott on two occasions - what a magical pair they are! I think my favorite track (although I like them all!) is the closing "Sanctuary" from Switchback. Piano, flute, and guitar tell the story as a beautifully-flowing unit where no one has the lead yet all three musicians shine and each is absolutely essential for this arrangement to work - it's a great ending to another great album from Scott Cossu!
Safe In Your Arms will be a treat for Scott Cossu's longtime fans as well as anyone new to his music. It is available from Amazon, iTunes, and CD Baby. Very strongly recommended!"
– Kathy Parsons, MainlyPiano.com
2015 Heart Dance Records
Jazz, Boogie and Déjà Blues
"Pianist Scott Cossu ratchets up the groove dial with JAZZ, BOOGIE & DEJA BLUES. All three of these genres, as well as ethnic experimentation, have always peaked into Cossu's music over the years, but this release fixes the spotlight firmly on them. You would be hard pressed to find another album that does such a great job of expressing the pure joy of making music. Playful and full of fun, this is great music that can be savored on many levels."
– Kathy Parsons, from Mainly Piano
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"Whether new fan or old, this is a welcome post card from a cat that hasn't been gone too long but has been on the sidelines for too long. Smoking piano jazz from a real cooker that's totally back in fine form.
– Midwest Record, Chris Spector, Editor
2012 Summit Records
Tides Between Us
"It is great to hear these new beautiful compositions of Scott's".
– George Winston
Haunting beautiful Music, the kind that stays with you for a long time.
–Number 15 on the charts of the
New Age Reporter.
Number 88 on the Top 100 Airplay Chart for 2009
– Zone Music Reporter
#17 on the 20 most played CDs for March 2004
– Earth Feeling –Love FM Fukuoka, Japan
2007 Allegro Music
Emerald Pathways
"Scott Cossu is one of New Age music's brightest instrumental stars and yet his music is uncomfortable with that arbitrate designation. Combining his love and knowledge of folk, jazz and classical composition, Cossu's album EMERALD PATHWAY is pleasant music and so much more. Using the mountains, mossy forest, and rivers that surround him as musical inspiration, Cossu pares down his palette to the basics: piano, guitar, flute and percussion. Coming from a composer who has previously employed dozens of musician to create his music, this would seem prohibitively limiting, but Cossu focused on his experience as a classical composer, and relies on form and structure to express himself instead of polyphony ad ethnic stylings. Tracks are preformed as chamber pieces that feature all the tonal coloring and gathering intensity of traditional classical music. Cossu's experiment in simplicity has repaid him in musical abundance."
– All Music Review
Released September 3, 2002 and was the first title of the new Alula Visions label.
When Spirits Fly
"Scott Cossu's return to the new age/smooth jazz fold is a miracle in itself. Hit by a car while crossing a street in Los Angeles in 1989, the keyboardist's resulting amnesia meant he had to learn music all over again and rediscover his gifts.When Spirits Fly is then not only a tribute to the preciousness of life, but also confirmation that after a long period of recovery, he's just as melodic as ever...Cossu proves that even spiritual minded composers can swing with the funkiest of jazz players; many of the jumping, percussive lines of 'Hakone' and 'Vina Del Mar' are done in perfect tandem with the Wes Montgomery flavored guitar of Van Manakas...He bounces off the reliable soprano sax of Justo Almario on the laid back 'Coming Home' and goes for a touch of the exotic with violinist Willie Royal (from Willie & Lobo) on the title track... While Cossu draws upon his instrument's extraordinary percussive potential, ultimately it's the graceful beauty of simple melodies which stay with the listener longest."
– Jonathan Widran, All Music Guide
"For instrumental/atmospheric jazz fans, here's a fine new work."
– Chris Yeargers, Victory Music Review
"This CD is an uplifting and enjoyable listen with a lot of musical merit. It's primarily an acoustic outing, with shades of light classical, boogie ('Vina Del Mar'), and easy listening."
— Hughes Reviews
"New age mainstay Scott Cossu is back after a long absence with his new album of accessible, earthy, piano-based instrumentals...Landing between pop and light jazz, 'When Spirits Fly' is a creative, acoustic-based new age record of enduring beauty, sure to lift the spirits of those who waited and win some new fans in the process."
– The Big Room
Stained Glass Memories
With Van Manakas, Dave Valentin, and Sammy Figueroa
"This recording finds the pianist in fine tuned perfection, writing and playing life affirming songs of wonderment."
– Movin' in Stereo
"What a breath of fresh air! I was especially taken by cut #4, Old Man Mambo... I think that it is a perfect song! Bravo Scott!"
– Pac Attacks
"The release of Stained Glass Memories...caps one of the most remarkable stories of personal triumph in contemporary music. Consistent with Cossu's popular and distinctively melodic blend of jazz, classical and ethnic influences, the new music evokes a panorama of deep emotions. Stained Glass Memories, recorded with previous Cosuu collaborators guitarist Van Manakas, flutist Dave Valentin, bassist Mark Egan, and drummer Robbie Armeen, is a joyous celebration of recovery from a traumatic car accident Cossu suffered in 1989. It is powerful evidence of his recovery and the full majesty of his musical language."
– MusD, All Music Guide
1992 Windham Hill 01934-11120-2
A ten year retrospective of Cossu's work on the Windham Hill label, a chronical of his most popular works. The album exhibits Scott's many departures from the new age field, with a melodic blend of jazz, classical and ethnic influences.
1992 Windham Hill 01934 11112-2
"Listeners will experience the wonder of a musical performance by Van Manakas on fretless bass and acoustic guitar and Scott Cossu on piano, guitar and keyboards. Also featured are the sounds of songbirds, sparring elk, rain, wind and a stream."
- MusD, All Music Guide
Van Manakas with Scott Cossu
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"He has an ear for the right riff, and his group manages to sound sincere while stretching the limits of the style just slightly."
– Keyboard Magazine
"Switchback is his seventh and most passionate album to date. Rich in atmospheric textures. Pick of the month."
– Tempo Magazine
1989 Windham Hill WD-1081
She Describes Infinity
With guitarist Van Manakas, produced by Tom Canning.
"If you are in the mood for some articulate and intelligent music to calm your soul, this is for you."
– The Daily Aztec
"An engaging, melodious album with a variety of musical shadings."
– The Blade
"Adorned with rich instrumentation, Cossu brings his classical background together with the influences of early soul and a little pop jazz."
– Jazziz
1987 Windham Hill WD-1063
With Paul Winter consort cellist Eugene Friesen.
"A rich, highly romantic and pastoral record."
– Cash Box Magazine
"An inspiring piece of music. If the love of one's craft could be packaged, it would be wrapped up in 'REUNION'."
– Entertainment Magazine
1986 Windham Hill WD-1049
Features flutist Dave Valentin and bassist Mark Egan.
Scott Cossu/Islands: #1 JAZZ National Airplay.
– Radio & Records Magazine
"Inspired by extended travel, it presents a powerful collection of original solo and ensemble pieces with Cossu on piano, with New York's finest musicians. Powerful, tasteful and may be one of the label's best offerings."
– The Argus Magazine
"Cossu expands his musical vocabulary with larger arrangements featuring horns, bass, and drums. The more impressionistic leanings of his previous releases are also expanded upon through the album's fusion of blues, jazz, Latin, and classical elements. Islands features some major contemporary jazz names like flutist Dave Valentin, bassist Mark Egan, drummer Danny Gottlieb, and violinist Michal Urbaniak."
– Linda Kohanov, All music Guide
1984 Windham Hill WD-1033
Wind Dance
Produced by George Winston, featuring Alex de Grassi.
"Cossu weds ethnic diversity to his natural style of ethereal piano. His enticing polyrhythms are fit for ecstatic dancing. A sparkling record."
– The Boston Globe
"Undoubtedly, Scott Cossu is one of the jazz luminaries of the future."
– Billboard Magazine
1981 Windham Hill WD-1016
Still Moments
Features acoustic piano with harp, cello and vibes.
"He's a first rate pianist with a big heart."
– Billboard Magazine
"A pianist with a fine sense of craftmanship and composition, bringing forth pieces as lovingly assembled as high quality woodworking."
– The Argus Magazine
1980 Windham Hill WD-0086
"It is no big surprise to find him in yet another bag: that of the straight-ahead jazz performer and composer. Spirals is an example of the Cossu influenced no doubt, by the Jazz Messengers and Horace Silver. Although the Silver and Blakey impressions are quite strong, Cossu the performer and composer is his own unique personality. While Cossu is still a fairly new name in the jazz world, he has much to value to contribute."
– Frankie Nemko,
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While attending Azusa Pacific University studying psychology, dancing is all that Derrek "Doc" Clarke could think about. After a chance meeting with singer and world renowned dancer/choreographer Toni Basil ("Hey Mickey") in a Hollywood night club, Azusa Pacific University was now in the past. Toni Basil was so impressed by Doc's grace, and unqiue style on the dance floor that she asked him to appear in her video "Street Life".
From there she enlisted him to help her choreograph the R&B group Troop's video "Spread my wings". Doc continued to work with Troop and countless other entertainers including Young Mc, Herb Alpert, Fatima Robinson, Tony Danza and more. He was also featured in a number of commercials including those for Pepsi and Sega.
His feet eventually led him to Japan where he lived and performed for three years. This eventually took a toll on the young dancer and he relocated back to Southern California. Wanting more of a challenge and possesing a thirst for how the music business worked, he began interning at Motown Records in the A&R dept. After becoming a full time employee at Motown, Doc began to help artists with their image and how they looked on videos, album covers,and live appearances. Doc has styled such artist as Queen Latifah, Michael Bivins, BBD, Lloyd, Sammie, Something for the People, Jesse Powell, and countless other's.
You can now find Doc managing artist, song writter's, producers.
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LITTLE ROCK � Arkansas' House speaker-elect said Friday there may not be a fix for struggling rural hospitals that are backing Medicaid expansion as a way to help keep their doors open.
LITTLE ROCK � Arkansas� House speaker-elect said Friday there may not be a fix for struggling rural hospitals that are backing Medicaid expansion as a way to help keep their doors open.
Rep. Davy Carter of Cabot, a Republican who will lead the first GOP-majority state House since the end of the Civil War, also said he believes term limits �don�t work� and that his decision to resign as division president of Centennial Bank had nothing to do with running for governor in 2014, something he said he is not even thinking about.
Speaking as a guest lecturer at the University of Arkansas School of Public Service, Carter said he is not convinced that Arkansas should expand Medicaid under the federal Affordable Care Act to include people earning up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level, an option that hospitals say would help them address the problem of uncompensated care.
Carter said he knows that hospitals �aren�t blowing smoke up our rear when they tell us that they�re struggling financially� and called the problem �grave.�
�Now I don�t know how else to say this, but I�m just a straight shooter. I don�t know that the state has an answer to that problem,� he said. �I don�t know that it can be fixed.�
The federal government would pay the full cost of the expansion for the first three years, after which the state�s share would gradually increase to 10 percent.
�This � three-year expansion money in the short time may provide some breathing room, but in the long term that�s not the answer,� Carter said. �They�re still losing 18 cents on the dollar. It doesn�t work. The math doesn�t work.�
Paul Cunningham, senior vice president of the Arkansas Hospital Association, which supports the expansion, said later that Carter is correct that Medicaid expansion is not �a panacea,� but he said it would be far better than doing nothing.
Cunningham said Medicaid would reimburse hospitals only about 80 percent of the cost to treat patients who would be covered under the expansion, so hospitals would continue to lose money. But if those same patients obtained treatment and had no Medicaid coverage, they typically would be able to pay only about 20 percent of the cost, he said.
The association has estimated that by 2014 hospitals statewide could be losing $450 million a year to uncompensated care, but that the loss could be about $200 million lower with the expansion.
�If you can keep that uncompensated level from growing exponentially like it has, then you can provide hospitals with an option of at least continuing to offer services in their community,� Cunningham said.
In answer to a question from the audience about term limits, Carter said they are not working.
�It looks pretty self-serving for a guy like me standing here telling you that, but that�s the truth. They don�t work,� said Carter, who is in his third � and because of term limits, final � House term.
Carter said it is �absolutely impossible� for a person to be elected in November and become an expert on every aspect of state government by the time a session starts in January.
�Right about the time when you get ready to leave you start understanding how the world goes around, and it�s a disservice to the citizens of the state,� he said.
Carter said he believes there should be some form of term limits, but the current ones � limiting lawmakers to three two-year terms in the House and two four-year terms in the Senate � are too short.
Carter announced Thursday that he was stepping down from his position at Centennial Bank, leading some to speculate that he may considering a run for governor in 2014. He told reporters after Thursday�s talk that he stepped down because �the speaker�s position is more than a full-time job.�
Carter said he will remain on the bank�s board and will continue to receive the same stipend that other board members receive.
Asked if he is considering a gubernatorial bid, Carter said, �I am so far not thinking about that. There�s too many things that need to be dealt with over the next three or four months.�
So far, Asa Hutchinson, a former federal prosecutor, congressman and high-ranking official in the George W. Bush administration, is the only Republican to announce plans to run for governor in 2014. The only Democrat who has declared intentions to run is Attorney General Dustin McDaniel.


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Before beginning on your new backyard design, survey your area and browse several panorama ideas to determine what would look finest in your space.. Discover gardening design ideas by means of lovely pictures and the way-to initiatives. Chase these critters away by dabbing peppermint oil onto cotton balls to place in parked vehicles, the basement, or enclosed backyard shed. As fall sped towards winter, I was busy and the chilly remains of my vegetable garden have been pretty far down on my checklist of priorities. Consider everyday items similar to watering cans or instrument storage to be a part of your complete look you are aiming for in your garden. Greenhouses out of windows, antique garden idea, backyard shed, sheds greenhouses, doorways.
I am attempting to lift a vegetable garde, thanks for the knowledge, serving to me to make a ravishing vegetable backyard. In this slender backyard mattress, a trio of rustic picket trellises help flowering vines at the back of the perennial border. With a small backyard you don't need many items to create the theme and so you may afford to be more adventurous. A garden that greatest matches conventional architecture, like Cape Cod, English Tudor, and other such kinds. The Munstead Wood web site indicates that the backyard is open by association, Monday to Friday from 9.30 to three.00 pm. (excluding Bank holidays). I am even tempted to strive doing my own container garden with seeing your success.
I assume it's a stunning border and I'm hoping to copy it-perhaps you might take some ideas from it. The echeveria wouldn't be hardy right here but you could possibly substitute sempervivum-mine are in the ground all winter. You ought to set up a system where all of the gutters on your house feed into a large tank that has a spigot where you'll be able to connect a hose and water your backyard. Most decorative garden types of maple want a compost wealthy, properly drained acid loam with dressings of properly decayed mature in late autumn. More like a tropical backyard, however I love the look and feel of a cottage backyard too.
A Chinese backyard is stuffed with symbolism, and is meant to be a representation of the universe, and on the similar time a miniature presentation of vast pure landscapes, there in all their glory, but so small they'll fit into a tiny pocket of land as a part of an extended Chinese household's sprawling home complicated. We began a small raised veggie garden last summer and misplaced practically the whole lot to ants.
Standing on the trail leading to my entrance door, I may see that it was no good planting tall vegetation in the middle of the backyard as a result of they'd conceal the smaller crops behind them, and would also conceal the view of vegetation from the street and from my windows. A vivid yellow Stingray parked in the drive would add a sure je ne sais quoi to the garden design – and je sais quoi to the price range.


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'Glee' recap: Rachel gets REALLY naughty in second Britney Spears-themed episode (VIDEO)
Um, is this seriously TV right now?! Today's Glee episode was steamier than I ever remember!
The much-anticipated second Britney Spears episode (titled "Britney 2.0") was all of the rage earlier this week. In fact, I was eagerly waiting for the premiere and, I have to say, I was EXTREMELY pleasantly surprised with the performances--in particular with Rachel's (Lea Michele) crazy sexy performance of "Oops... I did it again." But there were some pretty awesome songs before then, too.
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The episode, as usual, began with a BIG number: this time it was Brittany S. Pierce (Heather Morris) singing "Hold It Against Me" just before she gets kicked off the Cherrios (cheerleaders) and becomes depressed, dressing like a bum and getting an F- in her math class. To cheer her up, Mr. Schuester (Matthew Morrison) established a second Britney week while Blaine (Darren Criss) and Artie (Kevin McHale) promptly broke out into a genius mash-up of Britney's "Boys" and Justin Bieber's "Boyfriend."
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After a brief Kurt (Chris Colfer) and Rachel chat in their new Bushwick apartment in Brooklyn, the talk turned to boys and "Womanizer" with Marley (Melissa Benoist) admitting a crush Jake (Jacob Arist) and new BFF Wade (Alex Newell) and Tina (Jenna Ushkowitz) trying to warn her away from the newest bad boy at McKinnley High School. Then I'm just going to pretend that the guitar version of "3" didn't happen, ok? For shame, Sam (Chord Oversetreet), for shame!
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Following a surpringly sweet rendition of "U Drive Me Crazy" by Marley and Jake, it was FINALLY time for a super-sexy and not-quite-appropriate-for-a-teen-TV-show version of "Oops... I did it again" with Rachel and her new friend/love interest Brody (Dean Geyer). This was quickly followed by a confrontation between Jake and Puck (Mark Salling), who encouraged his brother to join the New Directions group before rushing back to Los Angeles for a date. Um, what?!
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Finally, it was time for the finale song with Brittany singing "Gimme More" at a school assemly to pretty terrible results. Well, she's been depressed all episode and it seems that laziness during this performance was the final symptom. And then we found out that it was all part of her plan to hit rock bottom (like Britney) only to bounce back up, forcing Coach Sylvester (Jane Lynch) to reinstate her to the Cheerios.
But what's a show if it doesn't end in DRAMA? And by "drama" I mean Rachel's sexiness coming back to bite her as Brody makes a move to try to kiss her (she turns him down) and then Marley finding out that Jake is dating someone else, causing her to finish "Britney 2.0" by singing "Everytime" while all of the lovers of the show visibly missed each other.
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A single journey on the Moscow subway costs 55 roubles (about USD 1), while a 20-journey travel card costs 720 roubles (USD 12). Using a student discount one can get a monthly Moscow underground card for 380 roubles (USD 6), the cost is even lower in the other cities.
A monthly metro pass costs between 250 roubles ($8) and 500 roubles ($16). Bus, tram and trolleybus tickets cost 10 – 50 cents (for one journey, irrespective of length). Trips and Excursions: Day trips to Golden Ring towns can be arranged independently for $10 – $20. Train travel in Russia is extremely good value (a 3rd class ticket from Moscow-St Petersburg costs about $12). Outside Moscow and St Petersburg it is usually possible to arrange accommodation for $20 – $30 per night, although that may mean Soviet-style hotels where service and decor leaves a lot to be desired.
Taxis are generally very cheap but sometimes drivers try to gouge foreign tourists. There is no real system of taxi licensing. Taking a taxi often means going out in the street and flagging down any car that passes by (a "gypsy" taxi) and paying the driver $1 or $2 for a ride.
There are two kinds of taxis: official taxis and unofficial "gypsy" taxis. In Moscow, the official taxis are yellow and have a taxi sign on the roof. In regard to which one to take, there are two lines of reasoning. One advises foreign travelers to stick with more expensive official registered taxis for safety reasons. The other line of reasoning is to take the gypsy cabs. They are cheaper, more convenient, more adventurous and more Russian. Russians say there is little risk in taking them. Young women do it all the time, late at night, and rarely have problems.
There are different prices for Russians and foreigners. Russian taxi drivers generally don't expect the tips from Russians but sometimes they do from foreigners. Avoid taxis that have another passenger inside. Sometimes they are muggers. Also avoid the groups of taxis drivers that gather around train and bus stations, tourist hotels and places frequented by tourists. You are better off and less likely to get ripped off or robbed if you flag a driver down on the street.
Transportation in Russia often entails traveling or transporting goods over incredibly long distances. Most of the rivers travel only north and south and paved roads are difficult to maintain in places with an extreme weather. Thus railroads have traditionally transported the bulk of goods and passengers. This is changing quickly as more people get their own cars and trucks. Locally, in rural areas, you can still see many people using horse-drawn peasant carts.
Students for Moscow generally arrive at one of Moscow's two international airports, Sheremetevo 2 or Domodedovo. The latter is preferable as it was completely renovated in 2002, and is now an extremely modern and efficient airport comparable with any in Western Europe. Sheremetevo is older and can be worse in terms of passport control and baggage delays. In St Petersburg the main international airport is Pulkovo. Some cities in the Siberia and the Far East of Russia also have airports of their own. The exit process is basically the same in all the airports. After getting off the plane (generally directly into the airport building) you should follow the signs to passport control.
Before you go through, make sure you have filled in both sections of a migration card (often handed out on the plane, otherwise available on desks in the passport control area). Hand in this card together with your passport and visa, have the migration card stamped (and one copy returned to you), and go through to baggage collection and customs. Find the appropriate baggage conveyor belt for your flight, and avoid the trolley caddies who will charge a fortune for pushing your luggage 50 metres.


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In today's Gospel story, Jesus made the people think about a time when God's people were sick. God told Moses to make a fake snake and put it on a pole. All the people who looked up at the snake got better. Jesus said He would be put up high like that snake. He said that if someone follows Him, they will live with Him forever.
Then Jesus told the people that God loves everyone in the world very much. God sent His Son Jesus so that if someone follows Him, they will live with Him forever. Jesus said God did not send His Son to the world to say the people were bad and in big trouble. Jesus said God sent His Son to save the world!
1. What is the name of God the Son?
2. What is something bad that has happened to you? Have you ever been hurt?
3. Jesus is with us, too, even when something bad happens. We can always pray and talk to Jesus.
4. It isn't always easy to be good. Have you ever made a mistake and hurt someone?
5. Jesus came to tell us that there is a different way to live. He came to show us how to live. He told us that we can be forgiven when we do something wrong. He came to show us the way to the kingdom, where bad things don't happen. We will live there with Him forever.


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HAL 9000. The computer from Star Trek. KITT. Jarvis. The polite, helpful talking computer looms large in our imaginations. And with good reason, the history of Intelligent Assistants is nearly as long as the history of computers themselves. Today, we're finally in striking distance of that dream.
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Manchester United booked a place in the FA Cup final and put down an even more important marker. Arsenal cannot avoid twisting their necks to glance back at it even as they pursue the Champions League and Premiership trophies. Arsène Wenger's team now know for sure that they have not made themselves unassailable in England.
Having held Arsenal 1-1 at Highbury the previous weekend, Sir Alex Ferguson can brandish the win as corroboration of his claim that the Old Trafford club is in the throes of rebirth. On Saturday no one could possibly tell him that the future belongs solely to Arsenal, who lost their chance of a third consecutive FA Cup.
There are limits to the reassurance. Wenger sees no comparison between the current United line-up and the team of 1999. With tomorrow's return leg of the Champions League quarter-final against Chelsea to come, he invited his own side to treat this result as misfortune, rather than a reprise of the defining failure at the same stage of the competition five years ago that ruined their season.
He is right. Then, United thundered on to a treble that Arsenal cannot now emulate. This time Ferguson has done no more than make it likely that the trophy cabinet will not be entirely bare. The mortifications of the past few months do seem, however, to have rallied support.
A period of relative hardship can be the start of regeneration. Some of the crowd behaviour was ugly and the Arsenal physio Gary Lewin, serving as an unwitting human shield for Wenger, was hit by a coin. Even so, there was a rejuvenated passion among United fans, whose fires were also rekindled by the combativeness on the field.
At times, as Wenger complained, it was nasty. There was unseemliness, with Jens Lehmann bowling over Cristiano Ronaldo, but the dangerous violence was United's.
Roy Keane went unpunished for a hack at Robert Pires and Wenger was rightly appalled by Paul Scholes's dreadful challenge on the substitute José Antonio Reyes.
It will sideline the Spaniard for three weeks with medial ligament damage. The general hurly-burly also left Freddie Ljungberg with a broken hand that rules him out of tomorrow's Champions League match.
None the less, Wenger should concede that United were the markedly better team in the entrancing first half that decided the game. The teenager Ronaldo, starting to understand his gifts, used his tricks pragmatically to open up a yard on Gaël Clichy and deliver his crosses.
Darren Fletcher, 20, proved why Ferguson is so eager to pick him with a durable and tidy display beside Keane. Wes Brown's recovery of form and fitness comes belatedly for United, but he may be in time to make the England squad for Euro 2004.
The 31st-minute goal, though, was assembled by four of the men of 1999. Keane sent the ball to the superb Gary Neville and, with Clichy stuck out wide, he hit a piercing pass to Ryan Giggs on the right of the area. The Welshman's cut-back was driven home by Scholes.
Arsenal never recovered. Their best moments came when the game was barely begun. An Edu header put Dennis Bergkamp through for a shot against the legs of the goalkeeper Roy Carroll that broke back to the Dutchman. His chip was cleared by Brown for a corner. From it, Edu shot against the bar and Kolo Touré's header from the rebound was well saved by Carroll.
Wenger, mindful that this was the first of four matches in nine days, started with Jérémie Aliadière and only let Thierry Henry appear for the closing half-hour. He will be damned for it, but a club like Arsenal ought to be adaptable and he noted that United had coped without the injured Ruud van Nistelrooy. "It is ridiculous to reduce a team to one player," Wenger said of Henry. "I thought we created our best chances in the first half."
Anyone who dotes on football warms to Arsenal, but you can celebrate the stylishness without assuming they are an irresistible force. United did not let them get into their syncopated rhythm. "We lacked a bit of vision and simplicity around the box," Wenger conceded.
Arsenal were reduced to pushing men into the penalty area indiscriminately, where they battled grimily for crosses as if they were journeymen pros. Wenger's side are not much use at that kind of thing and he has never had any interest in adding a target man to his squad.
Now he has to bring about the immediate return of refinement. "It is a massive game and that must help us pick ourselves up," he said stoutly of the encounter with Chelsea. Even so, Ray Parlour is injured, Sylvain Wiltord lacks match fitness after missing the last three months, and only Gilberto Silva can easily be recalled now that he is back from his game with Brazil to make up for the absence of Fredrik Ljungberg and Reyes.
Although Arsenal drew 1-1 at Stamford Bridge, Ferguson doubts whether they will go through tomorrow. Wenger said sarcastically that he was "not intelligent enough" to understand this reasoning. Neither his plans nor his attitude can be shifted.
In Wenger's mind the search for trophies is inseparable from the quest for football perfection. With his squad battered and weary, that will be a high-risk philosophy this week.
Ferguson's FA Cup run
1990 Crystal Palace
Knocked over Kenny Dalglish's Liverpool, the holders, 4-3 in the semi-final and gamely held Manchester United 3-3 in the final only to lose the replay 1-0.
1983 Brighton
Managed by Jimmy Melia, right, Brighton knocked out Liverpool at Anfield in the quarter-final and beat Sheffield Wednesday 2-1 in the semi before holding Manchester United 2-2 in the final, with Gordon Smith making his name with a goal and that miss. Lost the replay 4-0.
1980 West Ham
The last lower division team to win the Cup. Beat three top-flight sides: Aston Villa in the quarter-final, Everton in a semi replay thanks to Frank Lampard Sr's diving header, and Arsenal 1-0 in the final.
1976 Southampton
Defeated Malcolm Allison's then-Third Division side Crystal Palace 2-1 in the semi-final before Bobby Stokes's goal at Wembley sunk Manchester United 1-0.
1975 Fulham
Two replays with Hull, three with Forest, and one with Birmingham got Fulham to Wembley after 11 games. Lost 2-0 to West Ham
1973 Sunderland
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
Central Banks Rapidly Accumulating Gold: What's the Message?
We know that China, Russia and India are hoovering gold. And we know that the European Central Bank system has not sold any gold for several weeks and is on track to fall well short of its yearly sales quota of 400 tonnes. We don't know what the U.S. Fed is doing with its gold, as there is absolutely no transparency on this matter. The U.S. gold reserves have not been independently verified or audited since Eisenhower was President and every attempt to obtain information about the gold using the Freedom Of Information Act has been denied by the Fed. A lawsuit by GATA seeking to force the Fed's hand is currently pending in the U.S. district court in DC.
I believe that the massive accumulation of gold by Central Banks represents a gradual movement from a global currency system that is based on fiat - "full faith and credit" (i.e. "trust us") - to one which will be based on a currency system with some kind of hard asset backing, and that the hard asset will be gold. I'm not alone with this view, and as nauseating as it is for me to quote Dennis Gartman, he is of the similar view as me (from the Bloomberg link above): "Gold is quietly, at the edge, becoming the world's second reservable currency, supplanting the euro and rivaling the dollar," Dennis Gartman, a Suffolk, Virginia-based economist and hedge-fund manager, said in his Gartman Letter today. "The trend shall continue months, if not years, into the future."
It will take some time and a considerably higher price of gold in order to accomplish a gold-backed currency system. Historically, when the world has operated under such a system - which was really up until the Bretton Woods Agreement in 1944, Central Banks held 40% of their currency reserves in gold. Consider now that most CB's hold well under 10% of their reserves in gold. Given the declining output in gold -something which can be partially remedied by a much higher price of gold, which would stimulate more exploration and production - it will take a significantly higher valuation price for gold in order to achieve this historical 40% reserve metric.
Thus, the message of the market with respect to gold is clear: smart investors should shift a considerable portion of their investment portfolio into gold (and silver and mining stocks) and the price of gold is going to go much higher for several years. If you think I'm whacked out in my view, please take a few minutes to read this essay on using gold as a currency backing written by none other than Alan Greenspan in 1966: GOLD AND ECONOMIC FREEDOM
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- AnonymousThursday, 18 March, 2010
dave, omg when r most of the junior miners going to get some life in their stock price action?!?! They haven't done didley squat since the plunge of 08!!!ReplyDelete
Great question. Was just discussing that with a good friend who has most of his personal wealth tied up in juniors and is an executive at Colo-based junior mining company.ReplyDelete
In reality, they haven't had an life since their 2003 to May 2006 run.
I'm not really sure. I expected that when gold got over $1000 and held, the juniors would see some flow. But hell, even the HUI hasn't gotten back to its Spring 2008 high.
I think the mining stocks overall, and especially the juniors, are incredibly undervalued right now. Your guess is as good as mine as to when the stock prices will catch up to fundamentals. Usually the mining stocks make big runs over a short period of time. We are overdue to have one of those runs sometime this spring.
where do you get such great info?ReplyDelete
Some d-bag with a name similar to your's who I've traded miners/gold with about 7 years...thanks for the heads up LOLReplyDelete
at a time when banking is clearly showing the error of the fractional lending mindset gold makes a good insurance policy.
Fractional banking and fiat currency is the napalm and nuclear bomb of any economic system. History is the acid test for that. Gold is honest money. In fact, an argument can be made that most, if not all, of our economic/political problems, and some societal, can be traced to the use of fiat currency vs. gold. That's why gold has been used as honest money for about 90% of the last 5000 years. That's a fact you can look up.ReplyDelete
No need to look up, I actually knew that one! HA!ReplyDelete
Just got in some Silver Maple Leafs and they are so much better than paper money!
Nice GYC! On days when they smash the metals, pour a few rolls all over your bed and roll around naked in them - you'll feel better LOL.ReplyDelete
Silver Mapes and Eagles are just beautiful coins.
Edwardo, did you see the Bret Baier/Obama interview clips? Watch that and you'll really get fired up to do something. Obama lied, was arrogant and avoided answering any direct, touchy questions. I couldn't believe it. Someone should set up a giant projector and show video footage projected onto the side of the White House of Obama during his campaign and debates promising to bring transparency, honesty and reform to DC...Haaa!ReplyDelete
Maples are my favorite, though the Aussie Kookaburra coins are great but the premiums are outrageous! I did get a 10 ounce 2000 lunar dragon coin for my personal birthday gift, I am weak, I know! I was born in the year of the Dragon (1976)ReplyDelete
Nice! I wish someone gave me bullion coins for my birthday LOL.ReplyDelete
I own Austrian Philharmonics because I like the coin and it trades at the lowest premium to spot of the .9999 coins. But Tulving has Pandas for $35 over and I bought a bunch for our fund. Back in early '08 when coin spreads in gold went nuts, Pandas were trading at higher spreads than Eagles. I think we'll see that again.
Dave I've been fired up to do something for a long time. This is just a bit of kindling on an already well fueled blaze.ReplyDelete
I saw the evasiveness from Obama. I saw the the nose bleed level of bullshit that is typical of most pols who have the talent for answering the questions they want to answer instead of the ones that are posed. I did not see arrogance-though clearly the O Administration acts arrogantly- which I define as a posture of superiority and self importance. Obama held his ground, but he did it, by and large, politely and firmly, not in a high handed way. I'm afraid I can't fault him on style points.
I think it's important to stress that Fox never sicced anyone on Bush the way they sicced this interviewer on Obama which is too bad. But then Fox is, for all intents and purposes, an organ of the The Republican party who I hold in absolute contempt. Unfortunately, I also hold The Democrats in the lowest possible esteem.
Having said all that here are a few thoughts:
Obama said:
"I don't spend a lot of time worrying about what the procedural rules are in The House or The Senate."
Under David Dreier, Republicans used the self executing rule thirty five times. I would really like to know what Obama's stand was on that legislative procedure at the time. We know where Pelosi stood. Did Obama, no pun intended, follow suit? A good journalist would have come prepared with any information that might be "illuminating" given the present contretemps.
Both parties are a cancer on the nation, and the political system is corrupted beyond redemption. Obama must go. Bush should've gone.
Totally agree w/everything you said and for sure Fox is anything BUT "fair and balanced." And if I wanted to watch Bush bashing, I watched MSNBC.ReplyDelete
BUT, Bush never promised transparency, honest and reform. Obama set himself to be brutalized by anyone willing to call him on his shit. Fox does that. As for his arrogance, rewatch the part where Baier asks him about Connecticut and watch how Obama responds. He's douchebag.
I hated Bush as much as anyone could hate Bush, but I hate Obama even more because Bush never led us to expect anything different than that which he delivered. Obama has turned into the biggest liar in the Oval Office that I've ever observed.
everyone but the western banks are buyers......US (maybe 2000mt not the 8000 most media believe i would say), UK (310mt or less) and Canada (3mt or 3mt of paper the most likely scenario, its easy to find tree's there)ReplyDelete
not much talk about the middle east buying gold but one would assume that they are buying a crap load of gold behind the scene's for the oil they give as collateral.
asian and european banks are on a buying spree and are making up for all the selling by the western banks. you would have to think that china is closing in on 2000mt by now since they keep all their production and are working on getting more behind the scene's not in the scene's through the IMF like most believe. i say this year they give out another shocker in their actual reserves.
as Another says, 80% of the gold being traded will never be seen and it is this that will one day get everyone upset and hoard gold. just know that gold is the only money accepted for the most important commodity oil.
remember the last time their was a shortage of gold in late 2008, gold bought 27 barrels at the peak compared to the 14 which is the norm and is the current number today. many pepole looked at the paper price of this oil collapse to $35 but what actually happend was gold was just in huge physical demand and soared compared to oil as big oil couldn't get their hands on it. how close are we to having oil being only bought by gold to bring that ratio back down below 14 because it will rise ultimately way past 27 until gold gets revalued.
Good commentary Mike. I bet the U.S. doesn't even have 2000mt anymore.ReplyDelete
Dave, the other day I was listening to a woman (who was presented to the listener as an expert on education- I forget her name) describe Obama's approach to public school education as doubling down on Bush's "No Child Left Behind." If I choose to be reductive about the nature of Obama and his abominable administration, that says it all.ReplyDelete
He has doubled down on The Shrub.
In the meantime, I suggest everyone read post at the link below, as it speaks with eloquence, (a smidgen of) vitriol, and sophistication to Dave's following observation.
"I hated Bush as much as anyone could hate Bush, but I hate Obama even more because Bush never led us to expect anything different than that which he delivered. Obama has turned into the biggest liar in the Oval Office that I've ever observed."
- AnonymousThursday, 18 March, 2010
love the site and your commentary at LM Cafe. A few burning questions if I may.
1. Do you really think that gold's hammering in 2008 was b/c of 'deleveraging' as every main street presser said, or was it the BB smashing gold? They were able to label golds plunge with a simple and non-threatening label and no one I heard or read questioned the idea. I have difficulty believing it was just de-levering.
2. As far as the juniors, the true thermometer of gold euphoria, and why they haven't done much. What is your take on naked short selling? With all the fraud out there, and ZERO enforcement, what makes anyone think we have a free market? Easiest way to cap rallies is sell shares you don'y have. Several examples have been cited of proxies in which more shares have been tendered than are suppossed to exist. Heck, do we as jr mining investors ALL hold valid shares (or should I say electronic entries)?
Thanks again
Hey Anonymous. Thanks for the feedback - I really appreciate it.ReplyDelete
Great questions.
1) re: 2008 smashing of gold. We really had 3 big ones, March, July, Sept. March was right after gold had gone a bit parabolic, hit a new all-time high, and then I believe the cartel helped trigger a natural pullback, and made it more severe than otherwise, in order to start covering their enourmous futures short.
Starting in July was when gold/silver fell off a cliff starting on a low volumn Sunday evening in the middle of the summer, in the middle of a statistically weak period for gold. Although all the commodities were crushed badly, silver was hit for like close to 50% over the next couple weeks and gold was hit for about 30%. I believe Henry Paulson engineered a huge hit on commodities, taking advantage of the fact that all the investment funds (not just hedge funds) had loaded up big on the long side and the banks took the other side of the trade. I do believe that sell-off had a lot do with hedge funds being forced via massive margin calls to delever, but that it was an attack on the metals/commodities designed for that purpose. When hedge funds were controlling as much of the trading as they were back then, it took a lot of the power to manipulate the markets away from the Fed/Govt (PPT) and the big banks. The Oct smashing was a product both the metals correlating with the big stock market sell-off, and more hedge fund delevering.
So, yes, I believe that the metals smash in '08 was a by-product of the massive hedge fund delevering, but that it was much worse than it should have been because Govt/Fed/Bank manipulation.
Where I think we saw a final bottom in Oct '08 was the fact that the metals/mining stocks never came close to a lower low in March '09 the way the Dow/SPX did. I think that was our first signal that gold was being used for flight-to-safety.
As for naked shorting in the juniors (and the large caps), I know for a fact that it is much worse than anyone not on the inside (i.e. DTC, SEC, Fed, Treasury) could ever know about. I've seen actual trading data in ECU Silver, tracked over a long period time by one of the largest shareholders, to know for sure that naked shorting happens every day in these shares - especially the in the pink sheet/bulletin board market and up in Canada. This shareholder has filed several complaints with the regulators up there and they completely ignore his filings. It is a real problem and unfortunately one that won't go away until the system completely collapses and is rebuilt from scratch. That's why the truest of true goldbugs will, and have always, advised to only own physical gold/silvr that you keep in your possession.
I still believe we have time before the final collapse, and I believe we'll see a huge run all stocks, especially mining stocks, from hyperinflation, and the key is to have the discipline to convert profits in the shares into gold/silver along the way. It's impossible to know if you have valid shares in your account unless you ask your brokerage firm for delivery of your certificates.
Edwardo, thanks for the link. Interesting blog. I agree with most of what the author says, especially with respect to the Repubs/Dem in DC all being cut from the same cloth.ReplyDelete
HOWEVER, I truly believe the Framers of the Constitution originally set up the Constitution to avoid what our country has become today. Jefferson has many specific writings that warn against fiat money and allowing banks/financiers to gain control of the system.
If you really study the timeline, it was, ironically, Lincoln who set off the slow and subtle disconnect in this country from gold standard. The "trickle down" dynamic that the author describes could NEVER take hold if we had a true, strict gold standard. It was the process of disconnecting gold from currency that allowed everything that blogger describes to happen in this country.
I truly believe if the population of this country had been vigilant enough to prevent the banks from slowly taking control of everything, we would not be where we are. Of course, going all the way back to ancient Greece, philosophers have opined that the "masses" ultimately become too complacent to maintain true democracy. I believe that's what has happened over the last 140 years in this country.
Dave, I'll look into Lincoln's contribution to the disconnect from the gold standard. However, I would say the that the first stirring against hard money began-though not overtly- with Secretary of The Treasury Alexander Hamilton who was the nation's first genuine imperialist.ReplyDelete
Having said that, the massive expansion of the nation's territory was, in my view, and among other reasons, always going to inevitably act as a kind of slow burn corrosive against the maintenance of a hard money backed currency. So, looked at in that light, Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase was ultimately an early step, however cloaked, toward the institution of fiat.
But back to Hamilton, He, being an arch federalist and crypto imperialist-interesting that he and Jefferson hated one another- always pined for a central bank, and we almost got one fairly early on by way of Nicholas Biddle. Mercifully, Andrew Jackson, in one of his better turns as President, thwarted Biddle.
Sounds like you read that latest biography that's out on Andrew Jackson. My father read it and, believe me, I got the blow-by-blow. He calls AJ "Ron Paul before Ron Paul existed" LOL.ReplyDelete
Here's the link re: Lincoln. The facts in this essay are definitive:
"Of course, going all the way back to ancient Greece, philosophers have opined that the "masses" ultimately become too complacent to maintain true democracy."
I believe the important distinction to make is the Greeks knew the masses would become too complacent to maintain a republic.
Democracies are fairly easy to maintain as the lowest common denominator makes the rules. I like the old saying:
"Democracy is 2 wolves and a sheep deciding on what's for dinner."
- AnonymousFriday, 19 March, 2010
The PPT is at it today. AU almost 2% down. Quadruple Witching Friday is right. Buckle up for last 45 mins of trading! Can't let that PM market make advances, GOD FORBID!ReplyDelete
@Anonymous - these are the kind of days in which you plug your nose, close your eyes and add to positions.ReplyDelete
@Bill Browne: great comment - totally agree. Your last sentence made me chuckle. I always appreciate good humor on a day like today. Thanks!ReplyDelete
I just added you to my blog list. Thanks.ReplyDelete


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