Bush's intents in Iran? - Lest We Forget ...
Bush has had to answer charges that he got rich off the public when Dallas businessman Tom Hicks bought the Texas Rangers and the Ballpark at Arlington, which had been paid for with taxpayers' money, for $250 million. Bush made $14.9 million on the sale -- an astonishing profit on an initial investment of $606,000. That's not the only way Bush made money off the public, either. During much of his first term, he held interest in Crescent Real Estate Equities, a company owned by Richard Rainwater. As governor, Bush approved Crescent Equities' purchase of two office buildings from the state's Teachers Retirement System. The state lost $44 million on one building, and wrote off $7 million in principal and $19.4 million in interest on the other, while Crescent profited handsomely. (Rainwater was on the Rangers board of directors with Bush.)
As a businessman Bush had cost his investors close to $400 million by the time of his first gubernatorial run. That is not counting the close to $200 million the Rangers venue cost the taxpayer.
Bushs' oil ventures never produced oil, nor are they likely too in the long run - (sic) in Iraq.)
These aren't the ethics that make America run, these are the ethics that run America. Would G W 'the hatchetman' Bush hesitate for a moment to spend American lives in his quest for Iranian oil? It hasn't stopped him so far. The cost Bush has incurred to America is now beyond estimation, and that cost is fractional compared to what he wants.
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who's next?
Submitted on November 4th, 2008 by arpidoodleobama - the slum lawyer
biden - pushing the NWO into existence at the point of the American gun
or McCain - who might die and allow Palin to accidentally ' do the right thing'?
nice choices
We have a world wide infrastructure far enough into development to allow ‘massive’ economic exploitation and sophisticated enough to give the layman hope that something of significance will spring from its existence. What do we actually get from it? Politicians who play massively on peoples' emotions at election time, and election time only. Some jump. Doesn't allow much room for the needed leap of faith. Politicians mud slinging when they have the wherewithal to do so much more spells - same old same old - the folks are busy repackaging 9/11 NSA Iraq and economic disaster and for some reason we expect something better. It'll be different all right.
different
Submitted on April 20th, 2009 by arpidoodlesub prime mortgage fiasco, auto industry collapse, etc?
Our leaders behave like kids haphazardly trying to kill some innocent prey - that 'prey' being the economy - by doing an excruciatingly poor job of it.
Does the future hold similiar ritualistic blundering?
Worse, much worse - the ebb and flow of politics and political dissent are bit players in mankinds blind rush for self preservation. Global awareness is being drowned by the people it is trying to save.
i once likened money to tools saying ' if the development of tools kept pace with the development of money it would be like asking the engineers at NASA to build the space shuttle with stone hammers - but - money masks its' vile coutenance with the sweet stench of success - how much more can be said for the development of global conscience?
Unless the young adult in China does what we are no longer capable of doing - stopping the rape of the planet - the madness will never end.
The economic downturn could not have happened at a worse time - the Chinese can still return to their traditional lifestyles - something the totally money dependent West can not do - the complete industrialization that would have eroded the grassroots there, and thus caused massive unrest and dissent didn't happen quickly and will now occur at a slower, more 'acceptable' pace. The abhorrent machination profit driven capitalization has evolved into will sustain itself indefinitely, the bean counters have taken note.
To use hippie lingo - it's a shitty buzz.
When the gas is gone reason will prevail over what remains.
It's all yin and yang - human equilibrium, if you prefer, Christianity will prevail, as retarded as it is because it has a natural equilibrium all other disciplines lack - but it will prevail as an opiate for the masses - the invisible God position still being manipulated by those with wealth.
Unfortunately, the more things change the more they stay the same, after all, we're only human, we have limitations. Countless millions will die when the gas runs out, the world will be an isolated series of villages, then one day the fair will come to town, and clowns will get elected again.
And again.
in God we trust?
Submitted on June 6th, 2009 by arpidoodlewho can put confidence or an attitude of any value in the face of what capitalism really stands for.. Half baked ideas from 'controllers' being put forth and forced upon the public is not confidence inspiring, and the truth is - the system is a giant rip-off, an unstoppable vortex of greed. Why should anyone support a GM bailout? - yet we do it anyway ..... why? - because capitalism a.k.a. profit making, is not fuelled by responsible growth, it is fuelled by greed. If. for instance, we did as Michael Moore suggests, and convert our auto plants into mass transit assembly plants we would have to trust that we would all start acting responsibly and use that system regardless of it's shortcomings and inherent vulnerabilities, and there would be plenty of them - but people can't even trust each other to commute safely, so - throw a hundred billion, or a trillion at it if you like, it's not going to make any difference until people trust each other and that is the element that is lacking in this system. Look at the legalities in operation in business practice - how much trust is present.? And why is it not there? It's been dwindling ever since corporations were allowed to exist. Without trust you can not have voluntary involvement, and without that, we are where we are today.
blame it on the Bilderbergs?
Submitted on July 2nd, 2009 by arpidoodleThe Bilderbergers are secretive about their meetings, so in their case the paranoid are simply filling in the information void. If they won't tell us why they're meeting, they must be orchestrating a worldwide takeover, right?
Why it's Retarded:
The underlying claim behind both is that these groups of wealthy men have been working to create the infamous One-World Government that you'll see pop up in most of these conspiracy theories. They want a totalitarian regime that will enslave all of mankind, all at once.
Of course these guys have had decades to establish their plan, but instead they apparently opted for plan B, One-World Clusterfuck. Europe hates America; the Middle East is more fucked than a German whore on coupon day; all China cares about is exporting delicious lead paint; and North Korea is still run by that crazy man with the big granny glasses. It's almost as if the result of their "one-world government" conspiracy looks exactly like the random chaos of geopolitical events we've seen for the last few thousand years