Thought Provoking

[MetalMeister]

I read this one recently on the bees...

http://news.yahoo.com/zombie-fly-parasite-killing-honeybees-230200867.html

What would I do without my raw honey?   

A dire warning for the very survival of the human race........

What Ever Happened With Colony Collapse Disorder?

[sunseeker]

I read this one recently on the bees...

http://news.yahoo.com/zombie-fly-parasite-killing-honeybees-230200867.html

What would I do without my raw honey?  

A dire warning for the very survival of the human race........

What Ever Happened With Colony Collapse Disorder?

Hi MM
Thanks
Re: My last post:
I'm left eating my words....
                                    

Not much of a diet if the  Einstein prophesy comes to pass.

Filling the gaps in my knowledge.

http://www.culturaapicola.com.ar/apuntes/sanidad/245_acaros_parasitos_sobre_Apis.pdf

The link to the map of the spread of the Varroa mite in the .pdf didn't work, but I found this.....

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~copyrght/image/solstice/win06/Sammataro/varroa2006.html

Considering where the mite reportedly originated from, how has Australia escaped virtually unscathed?


ATB  

[sunseeker]

Hasty multiple post.....

1) Doesn't it always seem to be the case
The U's have a good run then.....

Fukushima Reactors Heating Up Again … Water Fails to Cool Them Down

http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/fukushima-reactors-heating-again-%E2%80%A6-water-fails-cool-them-down


2) ILLUSION OF RECOVERY – (“When you watch a CNBC talking head interviewing a Wall Street shyster realize you have the 1% interviewing the .01% about how great things are.”)

http://www.theburningplatform.com/?p=28887

There are 242 million working age Americans. Only 142 million Americans are working. For the math challenged, such as CNBC analysts, that means 100 million working age Americans (41.5%) are not working. But don’t worry, the BLS says the unemployment rate is only 8.3%.

Sarcasm from the “Comments” section below
 

Colma Rising says:

Hey, I don’t see the big deal here. Just go with the flow, buy high, sell low…

After going back-to-school shopping with a student loan disbursement, I still felt like I was missing something…

I had the new sterling silver thumb ring, custom fitted… bling!

I had the surplus fatigues, draped over a Che shirt, capped with the cuban cap emblazoned with the Chinese Star… and even got some nice aviators… cheap, under $100…. Stylin!

Still, I had all this loan money so I finally remembered! Lap top! Fucking duh… so I was looking at a deal but I said “this won’t do… I need that 5,000 dollar Alien Ware I saw a classmate with. Cha Ching, bitchez!

THEN I saw 0% for 7 months on a dope lttle chebby. Done. No probs. I can cover the $300 with loan disbursments PLUS the minimum payment on the charge card for those DOPE 15″ chromes and the system that says “booooom… boom boom….. boooom”.

What could go wrong, really? People are such negative Nancies sometimes. The way I see it, I’ll enjoy the semester, impress some hottties and when I graduate, I’ll pay it back at my leisure when I’m really making the scrilla.

What could go wrong? Buy high, sell low… that’s how you do it!

3) Truth, lies and Afghanistan
 
How military leaders have let us down
By LT. COL. DANIEL L. DAVIS

http://armedforcesjournal.com/2012/02/8904030


I think we can safely assume that Col. Davis career prospects just took a direct hit.

4) Banks Paying Homeowners to Avoid Foreclosures...

http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-07/banks-paying-homeowners-a-bonus-to-avoid-foreclosures-mortgages

“You could sell your home, owe nothing more on your mortgage and get $30,000,” JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM
And
Homeowners facing foreclosure may live rent-free for years before they are forced out.
AND
Lenders spend an average of 348 days to foreclose in the U.S. and an additional 175 days to sell the property, according to RealtyTrac. In New York, a state that requires court approval for repossessions, it takes about four years to foreclose on a home and then resell it, the company said.

Then where do all those (homeless) people live, and who picks up the final bill?

CREDIT..
Links mostly from:
http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/daily-digest-27/70910?utm


Nice to be reassured that everything is rosy and all's well isn't it?

ATB 

[MetalMeister]

Another good article by Martenson:

http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/why-currency-fail/70928

[sidewinder]

This kid could be held indefinitely under the NDAA just passed. This bill was hotly contested and people were in an uproar last month. Now it's signed into law and the sheeple have settled down and forgot all about it. Meanwhile we are on a course where before long people may simply disappear in the middle of the night. Remember, John McCain was a big factor in this bill being passed. He was the Republican presidential nominee last time. Not a bit of difference in him and three of the four candidates the Republican party offers the American people currently. The fourth candidate Rep Ron Paul will not get the nomination and it will be back to business as usual.

This is part of the reason I have very little hope for the nation going forward. I'm sorry but the great majority of the people seem to be simply ignorant or content to keep their head buried in the sand. It will take a HUGE educational process in order for most to understand what and how this has happened to the greatest nation in the history of man. Sad but, them's the facts.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/10/fart-joke-leads-to-bomb-scare_n_1268713.html

On the lighter side, I want to share what I think is a really neat approach to putting together some good music.  Enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es3Vsfzdr14&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

[sunseeker]

Ter·ror·ist (Noun): Anyone Who Disagrees with the Government

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/02/ter%C2%B7ror%C2%B7ist-noun-anyone-who-disagrees-with-the-government-2.html


For example, the following is considered terrorism or suspected terrorism in modern America:

Do you fit into at least one of those categories?

Who doesn't?

ERGO....
Every citizen must subject to arrest without trial and indefinite imprisonment.

How is this different from Stalin or Mao’s use of labels such as “enemy of the state”?

ATB 

[MetalMeister]

SW, that's a great video, thanks.  You might be surprised how much a street musician can make.  A few years ago, I was in Saint Louis listening to some friends play jazz and during the break I asked one of them what had happened to the sax player that used to play with them.  I was told that now he does some night gigs but primarily does the street gig and can pull in about 3K in a good weekend.  Of course I imagine a street musician can only work about 8 months out of the year here then minus inclement weather.  I was, to say the least, floored.  That's a potential of 39 weeks making 3K a week for about 12 hours or so of work a week.

Nice work if you can get it!  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlG8Nh76cW0

now about those sheeple...

How would you suggest making a change in the voice of the sheep?

What your action plan to change them?   

[sidewinder]

now about those sheeple...

How would you suggest making a change in the voice of the sheep?

What your action plan to change them?  

At this point I would have to say the sheep will only learn their lesson the hard way.  Most just don't want to rock the boat and have some cultivated unreasonable fear of an unknown enemy.  I say that because so many I talk to say Ron Paul is dead on with his ideas EXCEPT foreign policy.  If that issue was off the table I think he would be far ahead in the polls by now.  SO, many are waking up but out of false fear looking to one of the other candidates to not smell so bad. 

Steve Forbes said something tonight about another candidate coming into the scene.  Nothing would surprise me.  The Repubs and the Dems simply want "their" man in office.  One of them will have their way and it is both these parties that have brought us to this "end times" scenario collectively.  Still interesting to watch though. 

[sunseeker]

If you can't get this video to work. Let me know and I will try to post it again...



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkuNPGksync

I've seen the whole program and the seeds even successfully germinated afterwards (true).

They really shot up. 

ATB 

[sunseeker]

MUST WATCH Judge Napolitano: We Should Make the Government Fear US........

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2012/02/must-watch-judge-napolitano-we-should.html

"the greatest losses of our freedom have come not from someone attacking us but from the government  ignoring the constitution and the majority letting them get away with it." 

ATB 

[sidewinder]

The Judge certainly can make the case.  We MAY have 1/3 of the population thinking in about 5 years. 

[sunseeker]

The Judge certainly can make the case.  We MAY have 1/3 of the population thinking in about 5 years. 

Hi SW
The long arm of Uncle Sam got longer

http://www.sovereignman.com/expat/the-long-arm-of-uncle-sam-got-longer/

“laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt.”

ATB 

[MetalMeister]

1/3 is certainly too much to hope for as that would be about 100 MILLION people.

Don't need that many!

Most people do not realize how easy it is to control the political landscape or any other landscape for that matter.

Roughly 200,000 or less precincts in the country.

All you need is about 110,000 in the country to control half of the precincts in either or both political parties and you control who gets elected to public office, for the most part.

Here is how it works.  It is the precinct committeemen in any given county who control the destiny of politics in that county.  The unknown fact is that in most of the country, precinct positions are not filled but vacant.  When this happens, it is the county chairman who gets to vote the electoral aggregate of those unfilled positions.  
County chairmen have great power in the political process.  (and the people actually think they can change anything with their vote!!!! Hah!!)

It is the County party that determines who runs or does not run for office, for the most part.  If someone they do not want to run for office gets on the primary and then the general ballot then they can deny him/her much funds with which to run for election.  Very powerful office of the chairman and the party.

What you may have noticed lately is that Ron Paul knows this fact and has thousands of people running for precinct committeeman throughout the country.

It is the precinct committeemen and their vote who determine who the electors are for the party for the state convention which determines all the officials who will be in party leadership and also the congressional district representative to the state party.

It does not take many people to overthrow the government, they just have to know what they are doing...
 

[sunseeker]

Hi MM
I wasn't expecting a “Master Class” lesson when I made that post. “More than I bargained for" is the phrase that comes to mind (in the best possible sense).

Ever thought of embarking on your own lecture tour? 

If you teamed up with Sidewinder even more people could benefit of your combined knowledge. The ultimate double act. 

Enlightenment for the unenlightened.
There's a lot of people out there in need of it.
IMHO...
The great thing about this site (more than any other) is that everyone here has individual strengths that combine, and balance to enrich everyone.
 

ATB 

[onlooker]

SS's quote:

Enlightenment for the unenlightened.
There's a lot of people out there in need of it.
IMHO...
The great thing about this site (more than any other) is that everyone here has individual strengths that combine, and balance to enrich everyone.

Hi SS,

Well said!!  Keep posting everyone.