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Meet the Man Who Wants to Mine the Moon
The American System, in a nutshell: Develop infrastructure and foster atmosphere of creativity so the minds of the population can develop the economy and improve life for our citizens. Of course private industry should have access to NASA tech. It is freely available. Again, check out the NASA spinoff page. The entire purpose of NASA, is to make tech available to the people. My issue with your statements, is that you give no credit to the role of government, and all credit to this "glorious" private money that, in your opinion, does so much good. Should we let private money utilize ...
Posted in: Off Topic 		hrk
Oct 22nd, 2011
Meet the Man Who Wants to Mine the Moon
That is the point. Go back to the 1950's. Kennedy motivates the country to gear for a moon trip. For what' Money' Obv not, but why' Answer that question, and you will start to understand all of this. No private company would ever try to go to the moon, because there would be no way to realize profit. And you know, private capital pursues profit ONLY. Besides, what private company could come up with $20 billion in the 60's' Only a nation-state could fund such a project, and fortunately we had real leadership in that time period. So now that your government has financed the ...
Posted in: Off Topic 		hrk
Oct 21st, 2011
Meet the Man Who Wants to Mine the Moon
LOL Just to be clear, mining of the moon should be a priority. This is an imperative step in our exploration of outer space. Without public credit issued by our government, there is zero chance we would have made it to the moon by now. Zero.
Posted in: Off Topic 		hrk
Oct 21st, 2011
Meet the Man Who Wants to Mine the Moon
Dyz, it's pretty funny that you have so much disdain for the public credit that allowed us to figure out how to get to the moon and back (and all of the associated technologies that were discovered,) yet you are so quick to praise privateers who piggyback on those expenses and discoveries (after ensuring that the government is no longer a competitor.) Of course we should be mining the moon. We should be colonizing the moon. Then Mars. Then beyond. Unfortunately, NASA has been slashed, and these privateers are interested in one thing only: profit. Instead of developing the moon, it will ...
Posted in: Off Topic 		hrk
Oct 21st, 2011
oooooooops. nice one, climate change deniers!
If by clean energy sources, you mean nuclear power, then yes you are right. They are absolutely destroying us right now in nuclear development. However, in the same breath, you mention renewable energy sources, which typically means wind and solar. They only make that shit to sell to retarded governments that take their nuclear plants off line.
Posted in: Off Topic 		hrk
Oct 21st, 2011
oooooooops. nice one, climate change deniers!
It would be even cooler if you could make that person accountable by having them pay a tax to YOU, no'
Posted in: Off Topic 		hrk
Oct 21st, 2011
oooooooops. nice one, climate change deniers!
Most' Does that include china, india, russia, and others in the pacific basin' Or do you just mean europe and australia'
Posted in: Off Topic 		hrk
Oct 21st, 2011
oooooooops. nice one, climate change deniers!
No. Don't want to sidetrack this thread, but while the media may want you to believe this is the case, its not even close to being true. You are close to understanding the big picture pistol, but you are missing a crucial point.
Posted in: Off Topic 		hrk
Oct 21st, 2011
oooooooops. nice one, climate change deniers!
Start here: Do you believe that the US will be in charge of enforcing your policy solutions globally, or do you believe that some external global authority will enforce your policy solutions on the US'
Posted in: Off Topic 		hrk
Oct 21st, 2011
oooooooops. nice one, climate change deniers!
Feel free to answer the questions eyeknows. I am interested to see why you, too, are pushing this doctrine.
Posted in: Off Topic 		hrk
Oct 21st, 2011
oooooooops. nice one, climate change deniers!
Pistol and captin have good questions. Do you believe that the US will be in charge of enforcing your policy solutions globally, or do you believe that some external global authority will enforce your policy solutions on the US'
Posted in: Off Topic 		hrk
Oct 21st, 2011
oooooooops. nice one, climate change deniers!
Interesting. You really don't see what the goal is behind the pushing of this doctrine' OK then. What is YOUR goal behind the pushing of this doctrine' Are you just trying to appear intelligent by associating and agreeing with all of these "distinguished" scientists' Do you somehow believe that by pushing this doctrine you are "saving" the planet' Or are you flat out advocating giving away our government to some global group that knows better how to govern than our constitutional form of government'
Posted in: Off Topic 		hrk
Oct 21st, 2011
oooooooops. nice one, climate change deniers!
LS and RS, exactly what do you hope to gain by promoting this temperature analysis' It seems like you both think that man is the cause of warmer temperatures, so we need some overarching global group to regulate man' Are there too many people' Like, do we need to get rid of most people, or just Americans' Is it the Chinese that are causing these problems, or is it the Americans with their refridgerators' Maybe it is those pesky Arabs in the middle east' Each one of them is emitting CO2, right' The entire thrust of this man made global warming movement seems to be to rid countries of ...
Posted in: Off Topic 		hrk
Oct 21st, 2011
Extensive Damage to the WuMansion (pics)
Under normal circumstances, obv let the insurance company take care of this. For most people, even under these circumstances, the only option is waiting for the insurance company. BUT.... You have skills. You have tools. You can take care of this, and save yourself the hassle of uprooting your family. And if there is any doubt about whether or not the insurance company will cover mold issues, then it's a no brainer for you to tackle this. Heres what you do: 1: Get a respirator. Less than $50. 2: Get a pump sprayer. $15. 3: Get 10 gallons of bleach. $15. 4: ...
Posted in: Off Topic 		hrk
Sep 7th, 2011
Wow. Just Got Real. US Stripped of Triple A Credit Rating
He is advocating an entirely different form of government than your Republic. If you modify as you say, you ARE doing away with the whole thing. '
Posted in: Off Topic 		hrk
Aug 6th, 2011
Wow. Just Got Real. US Stripped of Triple A Credit Rating
Just curious. Did you also lol when they demanded, and received, the $700B bailout' Did you lol when you learned they received $16Trillion in emergency lending from the fed (backed by US taxpayers of course) in 2008' Without these cash infusions, they would have been declared insolvent long ago, right'
Posted in: Off Topic 		hrk
Aug 6th, 2011
Wow. Just Got Real. US Stripped of Triple A Credit Rating
ABQ says: Get rid of constitution, replace it with popular opinion voting machines. OT says: Great idea. Wow. Failed public education system, or super effective propaganda machine' Example: All of you who say "great post ABQ" believe the "popular opinion" that we will only get out of this current mess by cutting spending or raising taxes. Yet both options crush our economy. So lets follow ABQs advice. We'll vote. Do we crush the economy by raising taxes, or do we crush the economy by cutting spending' (of course, if we turn to principles, instead of easily manipulated ...
Posted in: Off Topic 		hrk
Aug 6th, 2011
31 U.S Special op soldiers killed in Afghanistan (chopper shot down)
This is absolutely horrifying. On a human level, a military level, an economic level, and a security level. 31 of Americas elite soldiers. The best and the brightest. For what' The political and economic BS going on right now is sickening, but this tragedy brings me to tears. Bring em home already.
Posted in: Off Topic 		hrk
Aug 6th, 2011
Wow. Just Got Real. US Stripped of Triple A Credit Rating
We don't even need to get the military involved. All that needs to be done is for congress to pass HR1489, which is sitting in the house with 33 cosponsors RIGHT NOW. More signing on every day. If this gets through congress, it will bring the current presidency down, and it will finish off the already bankrupt oligarchy. This bill will separate legitimate debts of our govt from speculative (gambling) debts of the oligarchy. Give the worthless debt back to those who originated it, to do with as they wish. Take it off the backs of the people. This is our only option. (everybody else ...
Posted in: Off Topic 		hrk
Aug 6th, 2011
Wow. Just Got Real. US Stripped of Triple A Credit Rating
Oligarchy works. So the oligarchy pays the bills for the ratings agencies. The ratings agencies attack the US. What do we do' Answer: STFU and accept austerity. OR Saddam pays for al qaida. Al qaida attacks the US. What do we do' Taliban protects al ciada. Al ciada attacks the US. What do we do' Qaddafi should coddle his people. Instead, he attacks some of his people. What do we do' _______ On an unrelated note: If the oligarchy of today, can be linked financially and familially to the empire defeated by Washington, Lincoln, and FDR, can it then be called an empire without ...
Posted in: Off Topic 		hrk
Aug 6th, 2011
Wow. Just Got Real. US Stripped of Triple A Credit Rating
As far as the markets go, you're playing a rigged game in a dead system. The financial system is ALREADY dead, propped up only by illusory monetary manipulations. QE1, QE2, bailouts, 16T fed lending to BANKS in 2008, euro bailouts, etc. These measures CANNOT work, it is literally printing money to buy worthless assets. So this dead system is obv trying to save itself. It's not working. But you can't understand that without first realizing that America was created as a sovereign nation independent of the empire (the first such nation, of course.) What was the empire' It was ...
Posted in: Off Topic 		hrk
Aug 6th, 2011
Wow. Just Got Real. US Stripped of Triple A Credit Rating
The ratings agencies are wholly owned. But by whom' From where is their income derived'
Posted in: Off Topic 		hrk
Aug 5th, 2011
Wow. Just Got Real. US Stripped of Triple A Credit Rating
Foreign too. Yes, this is IN FACT an attack on America by a foreign power. LOL Saddam "may" have financed al ciada, so we obliterate Iraq. The Taliban "may" have been harboring bin ladin, so we obliterate their country. Qaddhafi "may" have been mean to his people, so we obliterate his country. Yet, the financiers lapdog directly attacks us, but really, its OK. Take your austerity pill and STFU already. These are the same agencies that stamped AAA on all of the subprime derivatives that crashed. Yes sir. Interesting that an "educated" American thinks its fine that foreign ...
Posted in: Off Topic 		hrk
Aug 5th, 2011
Federal Reserve Issued $16 trillion in bailouts
Sigh, this is the biggest story of our lifetimes, which may in fact send Obama, Bernanke, Geithner, and others to jail, and we're debating whether or not you can "think and grow rich." My bad. (bcdm, I agree with you in principle, have lived what you are saying, and have been successful. The conditions for success were there, then. For my kids and grandkids, not so much. Their future is being stolen, literally, as evidenced by this GAO report.) This news is HUGE. As our govt scrambles to preserve its credit rating, "our" fed is lending 4x our annual budget to foreign banks and corps. ...
Posted in: Off Topic 		hrk
Jul 27th, 2011
Federal Reserve Issued $16 trillion in bailouts
Maybe this will be the beginning of your understanding that the same PRIVATE interests that own the fed, also own or control all major media. You think they are going to "out" themselves' Jailtime cometh for these traitorous thieves. (or maybe they will continue to be looked at as successful businessmen, who knows.)
Posted in: Off Topic 		hrk
Jul 27th, 2011
Federal Reserve Issued $16 trillion in bailouts
bcdrmr, You read "The Secret" and think you can think yourself rich. We know. But you were asked a simple question. Is it person A or person B' And FWIW, I've been extraordinarily lucky in my life, have studied NLP & DHE with the masters, but that is beside the point. Conditions for success are REQUIRED. Those conditions are disappearing rapidly (at least for those on the hook for these 16T in loans, not so much for the recipients.)
Posted in: Off Topic 		hrk
Jul 26th, 2011
Federal Reserve Issued $16 trillion in bailouts
bcdrmr, You really don't see how being a beneficiary of 16 trillion in loans could help one become a "successful entrepreneur'" Let's say person A has this perfect attitude that you espouse yet no access to credit, and person B is lazy, selfish, irresponsible, and unfocused yet has access to unlimited credit. Which one will society ultimately view as a "successful entrepreneur'" Just curious what you think. As for the rest of you, don't you remember 2008' Those were scary times. It was an emergency situation. If Bernanke thought the international banks needed 16 trillion, they needed ...
Posted in: Off Topic 		hrk
Jul 26th, 2011
People stampeding for liberal handouts.
The mission to send a man to the moon was a SCIENCE DRIVER mission. The point, and the result, was to use technology to better mankind. Getting there was the rallying point, but the process of figuring out how to get there was much more important. Those "smart people", that you refer to, were getting paid to work towards this goal. They didn't just accidentally make discoveries. And for those who already think I'm crazy, you're going to like this: LOL at curing cancer. Do you have any clue how profitable cancer is' The American system was ATTACKED almost from inception. This ...
Posted in: Off Topic 		hrk
Jul 19th, 2011
People stampeding for liberal handouts.
Empires have always used one principle weapon to keep their subjects enslaved: denial of knowledge (principally of the universe, but all other sorts as well.) The most recent empire, which ruled for nearly 2000 years, the Roman empire and its offshoot the British empire, only made investments that would help them retain power. Knowledge was only useful as long as it served to maintain the empire. When the US broke free from the empire and established the nation state concept, it did so with the intention of using knowledge of the universe (scientific advancement and technology) to allow ...
Posted in: Off Topic 		hrk
Jul 18th, 2011
People stampeding for liberal handouts.
You still don't address the issues of him ignoring the constitution and outright pretending he doesn't need congressional approval to attack other countries. And have you heard or seen the talk about Obama just raising the debt ceiling without congress' This shit is real, and I can appreciate the armed to the teeth society comment, as you are correct, no way it works out for him while the people still have guns. Why the fuck do you think they have been trying so hard to take guns out of the hands of citizens' ( I sense you get this, but many don't.) Anyway, whether or not he tries to ...
Posted in: Off Topic 		hrk
Jul 18th, 2011