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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8409129199157823217&pr=goog-sl BILL HICKS – A “MUST WATCH” INTERVIEW 1 hr 19 min 52 sec – Apr 20, 2007 Average rating: (96 ratings) Description: I have to give Bill Hicks full credit for waking me up to how the world really works, and this, his last interview includes the footage which proves the Branch Davidians were murdered at Waco, a Bradley tank with a flame thrower attached. This interview was shown on Austin Public Access and has been on Google before, only to be pulled for some spurious reason. If Bill’s friend Kevin Booth is still selling this video then please support his good work (along with Alex Jones) exposing the New World Order, but the information Bill puts across in this interview is too important for humanity to be perceived as having “intellectual copyright”. Bill hardly swears in this interview so there’s no reason for it to be removed for obscenity reasons, if it gets pulled again then it’s the evilarchy, not his friends, followers or disciples requesting it’s removal. Please watch, learn and WAKE UP – There IS a war on for our minds… R.I.P. Bill, you’re my messiah, Vernon was a false prophet!

Bart says: Clinton’s enemies were forced to agree that Vern killed himself and his kids.
The GOP did everything possible to destroy Clinton short of murder, so why would
they help him cover up a mass murder of children?

In the strongest words, Sen Ralston Purina said, “There is 100% proof that the government
DID NOT start that fire,” but there are still those who want to believe the worst.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070819/ap_po/democrats_debate

 Barack Obama on Sunday accused his presidential rivals of “political maneuvering”
for saying he lacks experience and he insisted he could handle the rigors of international diplomacy.

The candidates began their latest debate by critiquing the freshman senator’s recent comments on Pakistan and whether he would meet with foreign leaders — including North Korea’s head of state — without conditions.

“To prepare for this debate I rode in the bumper cars at the state fair,” the Illinois lawmaker said.   Chris Dodd, directly addressing a question about Obama’s relative inexperience, said: “You’re not going to have time in January of ’09 to get ready for this job.” Dodd has served in Congress for more than 30 years.

Edwards said Obama’s opinions “add something to this debate.” But Edwards said politicians who aspire to be president should not talk about hypothetical solutions to serious problems.

“It effectively limits your options,” Edwards said.  Bill Richardson agreed.

Bart wonders: Are they ganging up on Obama?
How does Hillary get Edwards, Dodd and Richardson to attack Obama?

Dear Bart, Why are you picking on these nice girls who won’t use up your stash while you are going out for Anejo? I think it’s smoking that is unacceptable to females. One young initiate remarked, “it doesn’t taste icky!” after pulling on a water pipe back in ’73. Also rumor has it that THC may be an endocrine disruptor and you know how sensitive females are to a change in hormones. http://cannabis.net/endocrine/index.html
Men as well get our hormones spilled at times when inhaling holy hits of Hawaiian but we(males) probably do enjoy being out of control more than females. So I think your hypothesis is sound at least on the control thing. Give her a drink first then a little smoky smoky. The volcano is nice. Have you been to the vapors yet? http://www.storz-bickel.com/us_home.htm?x=41&y=14 BC Martin

BC, I didn’t write that,
and yes, I’ve been to the vapors.
It’s been 37 years since I seduced a lady

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/18/us/politics/18cong.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

A rash of retirements among House Republicans is adding to the party’s electoral challenges and raising questions about a rush for the exits.

Representative J. Dennis Hastert, with an aide, after announcing Friday in Yorkville, Ill., that he would not run for re-election.

Retirement Watch

Four House Republicans — Representatives J. Dennis Hastert and Ray LaHood, both of Illinois; Deborah Pryce of Ohio; and Charles W. Pickering Jr. of Mississippi — have all announced in recent days that they will not seek re-election next year, worrying Republican leaders anxious to hold back a potential wave of retirements after the loss of their majority in 2006. Mr. Hastert, the former speaker, Mr. LaHood and Ms. Pryce were all well-liked leaders within their party.

“I think our party’s chances for winning the majority back next time are pretty bleak at the moment,” Mr. LaHood said in an interview, “and I will admit to you that being in the minority is less fun.”

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/blog/2007/08/my_fellow_texan.html

Karl Rove figured out a long time ago that the way to take an intellectually incurious, draft-averse, naughty playboy in a flight jacket with chewing tobacco in his back pocket and make him governor of Texas, was to sell him as God’s anointed in a state where preachers and televangelists outnumber even oil derricks and jack rabbits. Using church pews as precincts, Rove turned religion into a weapon of political combat — a battering ram, aimed at the devil’s minions. Especially at gay people. It’s so easy, as Karl knew, to scapegoat people you outnumber. And if God is love, as rumor has it,
Rove knew in politics to bet on fear and loathing. Never mind that in stroking the basest bigotry of true believers you coarsen both politics and religion.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,293711,00.html

Speaking in Iowa, Edwards responded to an attack on wife Elizabeth Edwards dished out by Coulter when he said, “They attacked Elizabeth personally, because she stood up to that she-devil Ann Coulter,” Editor & Publisher reported.

 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070817/ap_on_sc/low_ice 

There was less sea ice in the Arctic on Friday than ever before on record, and the melting is continuing, the National Snow and Ice Data Center reported.

“Today is a historic day,” said Mark Serreze, a senior research scientist at the center. “This is the least sea ice we’ve ever seen in the satellite record and we have another month left to go in the melt season this year.”

Sea ice in the Arctic helps keep those regions cool by reflecting sunlight that might be absorbed by darker land or ocean surfaces. Exposed to direct sun, for example, instead of reflecting 80 percent of the sunlight, the ocean absorbs 90 percent. That causes the ocean to heat up and raises Arctic temperatures.

“It is very strong evidence that we are starting to see an effect of greenhouse warming,” he said.

The puzzling thing, he said, is that the melting is actually occurring faster than computer climate models have predicted.

Several decades ago, the French manufactured, and with a straight face sold, a car. It was called the Fiat. Or at least that’s what I thought. I’ve since been gently but firmly told that the Fiat is made by the Italians. It should have been French, darn it! Why? Because Fiats were motorized garbage cans on wheels, rattling and sputtering down our roads, causing great amusement to everyone except the owners.
Hmmm, perhaps their poor quality had something to do with them being called Fiats.
The word fiat means: by decree, or authorization. For example, a king may, by fiat, declare the opening day of fishing season a holiday (and he should do so).
Or Congress might vote, then get a bill signed by the President, that bans all golf in the United States. So, Congress has the authority to forbid golf by fiat. Incidentally, this also would be a good thing.
Rush Limbaugh should be fishing.
Why am I concentrating on the word fiat?
Because in this country we have fiat money.
What is fiat money?
Worthless dollars, similar to the old Fiat automobile – neither worth a bucket of warm spit.
You should now ask, “How could fiat currency be worthless? I can still buy stuff.”
Only because the Federal Government by fiat, has declared that dollars have worth.
Allow me to explain by contrast:
There used to be another kind of money in the big wide world. Do any of you remember the silver certificate?
There was a time, several decades ago, when anyone could take dollars, which at that time were silver certificates, walk up to the Federal Reserve window and say, “Gimme silver.” You would be handed a small bag of silver in exchange for your silver certs.
Not any more.
So, in economics there are two kinds of money: fiat money and commodity money.
The problem with commodity money is you have to have the commodity, exactly as with the deed to a house, you have to have the house. A deed to a house would be worthless without the house to back it up, or the guarantee that you will get a house.
“Well gee!” you should now say in wide-eyed innocence, “Why would our beloved government with its honest, loving, hard-working bureaucrats and politicians want fiat money? Shoot, they’ve even removed the silver from our dimes and quarters. Why?”
Because dollars backed by gold and silver (called a gold and silver standard) are impossible to inflate – you can’t print silver certificates with wild abandon to pay bills.
And get this now, if the money supply can’t be inflated, bureaucrats are left with only one other option: raising taxes.

And that goes over about as well as Karl Rove at a Hillary for President pep rally.
Raising taxes cost GHWB his re-election bid, remember?
Okay, so are you beginning to understand this a little bit? If you are, it’s beginning to slowly dawn on you that with fiat currency, the Fed has created inflation over many decades, inflation being exactly and precisely the Fed printing more dollars causing each dollar to become worth less.
“Goodness!” You might say. “How could they have gotten away with this?”
Simple – you didn’t understand it. When anyone even breathed the word economics your eyes glazed over. So as our federal government has steadily grown (it’s now the biggest employer in the country) it has quietly inflated our currency to finance itself, counting on you not to understand, or care.

This is real easy stuff:
A commodity based currency cannot be inflated.
A fiat currency can easily be inflated.
So what’s wrong with a little inflation?
Perhaps nothing if you’re rich, aren’t on a fixed income, or like the taste of dog food.
Grimgold

BEIJING–China’s inflation rate has accelerated to the highest monthly rate in a decade, driven by a 15.4 per cent annual surge in politically sensitive food prices.

Prices of pork and other meat leaped 45.2 per cent and eggs 30.6 per cent in July over the year-earlier period, China’s National Bureau of Statistics reported yesterday.

The month’s inflation rate of 5.6 per cent was the highest since February 1997, and an increase over June’s 4.4 per cent.

Chinese leaders fear the country’s boom – the economy grew 11.9 per cent in the latest quarter – might ignite inflation.

They have tried to cool things off by raising interest rates three times in the past six months, and economists expect one to two more increases this year.

But a statistics bureau spokesperson yesterday tried to quell fears of a pickup in overall inflation, stressing that July’s sharpest increases were limited to food. Prices of clothing and other non-food goods rose just 0.9 per cent in July from a year earlier.

“As industrial-product prices and service prices remain relatively stable, the prices should not rise in an all-around and sharp way,” said spokesperson Li Xiaochao, quoted by the official Xinhua News Agency.

Yao Jingyuan, the bureau’s chief economist, said inflation might continue to rise over the next two months due to food-price hikes, Xinhua also reported.

It said Yao predicted the inflation rate would fall in the final quarter of the year.