Swamp-Ass

Gold prices continued to rise on Wednesday extending the all-time highs which followed India’s central bank bought 200 tonnes of the precious metal, swapping dollars for bullion as the country’s finance minister warned the economies of the US and Europe had “collapsed”.

India’s decision to exchange $6.7bn for gold equivalent to 8 per cent of world annual mine production sent the strongest signal yet that Asian countries were moving away from the US currency.

The purchase by New Delhi’s Reserve Bank from the International Monetary Fund pushed gold prices to a record $1,090.90 per troy ounce, up 2.6 per cent on the day, as traders bet that other central banks would also become buyers.

Pranab Mukherjee, India’s finance minister, said the acquisition reflected the power of an economy that laid claim to the fifth-largest global foreign reserves: “We have money to buy gold. We have enough foreign exchange reserves.”

"I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part of my energy. Nor to any achievement of mine. No matter who makes the claim, how large their number or how great their need … I recognize no obligations toward men except one: to respect their freedom and to take no part in a slave society."

One day, at the legendary Cains Ballroom in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the band was
playing a show with Foghat. It was basically a co-bill thing but it happened
that we were scheduled to go on first and Foghat second. I think Foghat had a bit of an attitude about Steve dating back to their tours together in the
70's. Anyway, Foghat are making things difficult at the load-in. They're up
doing their sound check and we can't put our gear onstage until their finished.
And it's getting closer and closer to the time for the doors to open. Mind you,
headline bands do this sort of thing to the young bands that are opening for
them all the time. It's almost a tradition like hazing. But you generally
don't do this to a veteran band. Foghat keeps starting a song and then
stopping in the middle and arguing and then starting again. "They'd go Hey
you're supposed to be playing this and he's supposed to be playing that, blah
blah blah blah. Mind you, these are there old songs that they've played a
million times before. I was getting madder and madder but Steve didn't seem
to mind. I even spotted him grinning a few times and knew he was up to something.

When Foghat finally cleared the stage we had only a few minutes to check the
mic levels. We were a good crew and got the gear up and running very quickly.
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The Cloward/Piven Strategy

Using borrowed money for a band-aid bailout of the economy should seem backwards to most people. However, it likely is a planned strategy to promote radical change. Those naively believing that President Obama is simply rewarding his far-left base, and will then move to the political center, must wise up.

The assumption that Obama will need the nation to prosper in order to protect the 2010 mid-term election incorrectly assumes that he esteems free market capitalism. He does not. Rather than win through superior ideas and policies, the Democrat plan for success in the mid-term elections is to win by destroying political opposition.

Obama adheres to the Saul Alinksy Rules for Radicals method of politics, which teaches the dark art of destroying political adversaries. However, that text reveals only one front in the radical left's war against America. The Cloward/Piven Strategy is another method employed by the radical Left to create and manage crisis. This strategy explains Rahm Emanuel's ominous statement, "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste."

The Cloward/Piven Strategy is named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. Their goal is to overthrow capitalism by overwhelming the government bureaucracy with entitlement demands. The created crisis provides the impetus to bring about radical political change.

According to Discover the Networks.org:

Rather than placa...

Everyone forgot all about the Constitution during this incredible infatuation
with Obama. But, when Obama's gone and this love affair is but a memory
and it's the next guys turn, it will be too late to try and take back the
almost all-absolute power we've given the Whitehouse. Yes, Obamamaniacs, you have set us up for the next Hitler, Stalin or Mao

A shadowy group of world leaders and decision makers are meeting in Ottawa this weekend, cloaked in a blanket of security and secrecy that has conspiracy theorists' websites working overtime.

Considered one of the world's most powerful and secret societies, the Bilderberg group's annual meeting was scheduled to be attended by about 130 people at the Brook Street Resort.

The guest list, according to an unsigned press release obtained by The Canadian Press, includes the likes of David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, Holland's Queen Beatrix, and New York Gov. George Pataki.

And the Canadian complement includes Indigo books CEO Heather Reisman and former New Brunswick premier Frank McKenna.

British prime ministers Tony Blair has spoken to the group in the past, as have former Canadian prime ministers Pierre Trudeau and Jean Chretien. Stephen Harper attended in 2003, when he was Opposition Leader. The prime minister is not expected, however, to attend this year's conference.

Conspiracy theories

Conspiracy theorists maintain the group has played a key role in world events, allegedly orchestrating the move to a common European currency and getting Bill Clinton elected after he agre...