US President Barack Obama has cautioned against making hasty assumptions about Major Nidal Malik Hasan (the massacre at the Fort Hood military base) He wants you/us to wait till they work out what to say about the attack. Too many people are getting the idea- the war in Iraq was unjustified, and unwinnable just like the war in Afghanistan . If terrorism should suddenly become random like Major Nidal Malik Hasan attack, and individuals took it upon themselves to commit or take some action (from breaking a pane of glass to the sky’s the limit (no pun intended) the American and British effort would fold.
The English government has reclassified cannabis from C TO B, a really stupid move. This act demonstrates just how thick the Labour government is: are they going to build more prisons for young offenders (criminalizing them) or just lump them in with hardened criminals.
The UK's chief drugs adviser Professor David Nutt has been sacked after criticizing the move. (what a handle) He said he stood by his claim that cannabis should not be a Class B drug, based on its effects. Read the report HERE.
" Ready or not here I come, I'm goin' to find you, and make you notice me." Wait till the AMERICAN GDP figures hit the PRESS tomorrow, and watch the markets fall- unless they decide in the national and world’s interest to lie? ---------------------- I'll be back to add on. -------------------------------- STIMULUS DOES NOT COUNT. How could it. It’s as unreal as the “fuddy duddy money” that brought about the financial collapse. Out of recession (my ass) all on the taxpayers money, unemployment, bank-bail-out, and propping up nonprofit making business. (one positive thing today- Blair's hope to be EU President is blown away. Thank whoever for that. To see him become President would make me really sick.
Money so they say, is the root of all evil today. I'm in the hi-fidelity first-class travelling set, and I think I need a Learjet.
--------- Experts say: The reality is we’re heading into a double dip or crash. Global recovery is but a Goldie Locks recovery propped up by bail-out money, and the push for consumer spending. The financial collapse was due to investment, (especially hedge) consumer spending, lending, and (especially sub-prime) borrowing. The UK government and G20 leaders want to cut banks' risks through regulation and making them hold more capital. The Bank of England Governor Mervin King recently said it was a delusion. He said: “government support for the banking sector had been "breathtaking" at close to £1 trillion. Never has so much money been owed by so few (the taxpayer) to so many. And, one might add, so far with “LITTLE REAL REFORM ……. measures taken by the government and world leaders had so far failed to tackle the key "moral hazard" that if banks and financial institutions knew that they were too big to fail, and that the taxpayer would help them out if they got into trouble. The belief that appropriate regulation can ensure that speculative activities do not result in failures is a delusion." ----------------------- You don’t have to be an economist; it’s as plain as the nose on your face. Once you have what they call Moral Hazard (a party insulated from risk may “behave differently” from the way it would behave if it would be fully exposed to the risk) you’ll never get a level playing ground. Sure isn’t that the very reason why western governments spell out the ills/evil (in some cases) of socialism. You can it seems only have socialism when it comes to wealthy, and middle-class citizens. They apparently behave more honest, and honorable. The working class will only lay about, and get lazy if they have too much comfort. King went on to say: "Encouraging banks to take risks that result in large dividend and remuneration payouts when things go well, and losses for taxpayers when they don't, distorts the allocation of resources and management of risk," he said, adding it was "hard to see why" taxpayer support could not be limited to retail banking. (my point- stop paying off rich investors to do the same thing again) Anyone who proposed giving government guarantees to retail depositors and other creditors, and then suggested that such funding could be used to finance highly risky and speculative activities, would be thought rather unworldly. But that is where we now are." --------------------- We live in a precarious time of no proper regulation, not only in the banking sector, we experience it in our health system, education, employment/unemployment, tax, law, right through we know it is unfair. Funny, in the third world the word corrupt is used whereas here we prefer/use the word “unfair.” I guess we feel to think it’s much worse (I’m glad I don’t live) over there; in fact I have been asked on numerous occasions, some friendly, and some not so: “if you’re not happy here why don’t you go back to from where you came?” It’s time to really wake up, and smell the coffee
We all think the Iranian’s are slightly mad. (and I must say they’ve got themselves to blame) We think they’re really mad for blaming the west,” but what if America, Britain, and - ???? - were involved.
I think it’s time to start thinking straight, before it’s too late. --------------------------
PS: I’d like to remind everybody: “there were no weapons of mass destruction.” And the politicians knew nothing about how financial investment banking worked. Funny thing though, Gorgon Brown has demanded Iceland pay back what Britons had invested in Icelands ivestment banks. The Icelandic government must have known all about it.
Obama wants to establish a one million strong civil army under his control, naturally he is commander and chief.
Quote: “We can’t continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the “national... security objectives that we’ve set. We Have got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as strong, just as powerful and well funded.
Obama’s Chief of Staff Rahm Israel Emanuel: “everyone between the ages of 18 and 25 will serve a basic training in a kind of civil defense. Obama: “ it doesn’t always have to be a service in uniform; one of the things it can be; if you talk to our generals, they are desperate for is a civilian counterpart to our military force.
CHANGE.GOV Obama and Biden will call on citizens of all ages to serve. They'll set a goal that all middle school and high school students engage in 50 hours of community service a year.
