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Castrated, by Robert Gore

Posted by straightlinelogic 9 years, 2 months ago to Government
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The proper US response to the Saudi’s threat would have been the middle finger. Ever-happy-to-monetize central banks and the world’s capital markets can handle a $750 billion sale of US debt. There would be a price concession as markets soaked the Saudis, but after the sale prices would rally and there would be no permanent damage. That the US would allow itself to be threatened illustrates what happens when a confederated empire runs on borrowed money. How long can an empire last that succumbs to its creditors’ threats? (China has a lot more US government debt than Saudi Arabia.)

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  • Posted by freedomforall 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    In other words, another possible explanation that makes at least as much sense as the horse shit the Bush administration fed the public.
    The feds have been feeding it to us since 1963 and they don't deserve to remain in the gene pool.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    We didn't divvy up the Middle East that was the Brits unless you are one of them referring to them. But we did much the same after in the 1990s and 2000s so I suppose it's a fair comparison.
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  • Posted by DrZarkov99 9 years, 2 months ago
    The important thing to remember is that the biggest holder of U.S. debt is its own citizens. Through investment, we hold more than the Saudis, Chinese, and Japanese combined. We should be reminding our five and dime potentate just who he and his cronies should be most afraid of, and accommodating to.
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  • Posted by $ HeroWorship 9 years, 2 months ago
    Entangling alliances.

    Geopolitics is an ugly game. As soon as we entered WW1 (then divvied up the Ottoman), and especially WW2, then took on the role of defending against communism, we lost our innocence. Now it is enemies of enemies and stability/overthrows. Such a sad poltical symbiosis , complete with a history that we don't want exposed. My beautiful American experiment - a Republic dedicated to liberty - too bad we couldn't keep it.
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  • Posted by Zenphamy 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I don't care to speculate on something like that. I simply look at the facts as we know them, compared to the nonsense fed to us by the media and government.
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    From what I understand explosives were planted into the building because they knew someday it had to come down because of structural problems inherent in its design. The Charges were set to go off automatically if there was a problem.

    Building 7...same story but the Money...ah the money...was taken before they blew that building which had already been targeted for destruction...the owner should have been charged with insurance fraud...he was a political zionist or what we call a Fake Jew or Jew in name only.

    So now you know Why each building came down the way they did.
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  • Posted by 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    For this article I wasn't going to wade into all the glaring anomalies and inconsistencies, but as Zenphamy points out, there are many and they implicate Americans and the US government. This is not the country we once knew and loved.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Do you have any speculation on possible motivations for a conspiracy that goes beyond looking the other way or helping the perpetrators crash planes into buildings?
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  • Posted by Zenphamy 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    When the appearance of an event can only happen as it appears to, if the underlying principles of physics, chemistry, and science are contradicted--something in what one assumes from the appearance is wrong.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Suppose elements in the Saudi and US gov't were aware of 9/11 plan and purposely failed to act and even conspired to help the perpetrators. I've seen no evidence of that, BUT I can easily imagine it. I would not be completely shocked to learn that. It makes sense.

    All of this other stuff, though, about faking the nature of the attack does not make sense to me. The goal of the conspiracy would be to cause deaths that appear to be caused by extremists in order to get the US to respond. If they have the ability to make planes appear to crash into buildings, they don't need the high-tech bombs. Using high-tech bombs and planes makes the plan harder to execute and more likely to be found out.
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  • Posted by Zenphamy 9 years, 2 months ago
    Although the 28 pages might well reveal the involvement of Saudis in 9/11, it will not answer the major questions of what happened on that day or the days and months leading up to it or the probable involvement of Americans instigating and cooperating in the planned, execution deaths of some 3,000+ and the continued deaths of New Yorkers exposed to toxins of what-ever nature.

    DoD announcement on 9/10 that they couldn't account for $2.3 trillion
    Micro Nukes
    Nano-thermite
    Free falling collapse
    Bldg 7 collapse from office material fires
    Thousands of tons of concrete that magically turns to dust
    Pyroclastic flows singing parts of autos hundreds of feet from the buildings and others burned to the bare metal
    Aircraft maneuvers and speeds that far exceeded aeronautics and not repeatable by professional pilots
    No plane residue at Pentagon or Pennsylvania
    On and on, that we'll never know the truth of or will never accept. All in order to continue a belief in a country and government that we all know doesn't exist as we are raised to believe, maybe never did.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years, 2 months ago
    "The proper US response to the Saudi’s threat would have been the middle finger."
    I agree completely, regardless of the merits of what they're trying to push us to do.

    This case of distant people born to wealth pushing us around reminds me of the American Revolution. The colonies weren't rich and powerful. I would rather not be rich and powerful and do our own thing than be pushed around. As you suggest, not borrowing large amounts of money would make us richer and less susceptible to foreign economic pressure.

    But we'll pull up with these annoyances. Once it becomes a crisis we'll cry "hoocoodanode" and then fix it.
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