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Village Idiot's Blog: Oct 27, 2007 4:01am 1 review government, inflation
http://www.336bc.com/blog/; Inflation

Inflation has been defined as a process of continuously rising prices or equivalently, of a continuously falling value of money. [1]

The cause of inflation is expansion of the supply of money in relation to gross domestic product (GDP). In other words, when the Federal Reserve System (Fed) creates more money than is warranted, inflation occurs. You may have noticed your buying power has been significantly reduced over the last 15+ years. However, at the same time, official government statistics indicate very low inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Last year, for example, the official CPI was about 4%. However, the true rate of inflation was about 7.5%. The government agency that measures price changes does not do a very good job. I've read that some folks think this is quite deliberate. I know: the horror to think the government would actually lie to us! Whether intentional or not, the fact remains that I can't buy as much stuff with $100 as a year ago. The government says this $100 is now worth $96, but the truth is more like $93. [2]

Recently, the printing press got into full-swing under the Clinton administration, and hasn't stopped since. This was combined with low interest rates to stimulate the economy artificially. The low interest rates were intentionally done for this purpose. The idea behind this is to inflate the economy so as not to suffer economic downturns such as depressions and recessions; and also, to maintain low inflation while encouraging full employment. It can be argued that this strategy has been largely successful. We do in fact enjoy relatively low unemployment; haven't had a recession in a while; and inflation is really low: at least on an official basis.

Holes can be shot through all the good points mentioned, except we really haven't had a recession in some time. Already discussed was the fact inflation is much higher than officially stated. Also, official unemployment statistics are known to be wrong (nothing recent, they have always been wrong). But unemployment seems better than at many times in the past. One noticeable thing related to unemployment: you can find work, but what about trade work which pays well? It seems the quality of jobs, in terms of wages and so forth, is lower now compared to 20 years ago. This is probably due to the fact that as a nation, we do not make (manufacture) hardly anything anymore.

Using "official" statistics, the long-term purchasing power of the dollar has decreased dramatically since 1913, the year the Fed was created. If you put a dollar in a cookie jar in 1913, it would buy only 5 cents worth of stuff now. Another way of saying this is that in 1913 a dollar would buy what $20 buys today (unofficially, it takes 35 2007 dollars to buy what 1 dollar bought in 1913). Since the primary reason the Fed exists is to maintain purchasing power of the dollar, it is obvious that the Fed is a failure.

American Thinker: Islamophobia and the Islamist Scarecrow: Oct 26, 2007 5:49am 1 review islam
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/10/islamophobia_and_the_islamist.html; The wave of terror that was unleashed on the world in the past few decades is widely referred to as "Islamic terrorism" (or Islamist terrorism); the term is an apt description of the facts, and has a strong credibility among academicians, in the international media and with the ordinary citizen all over the world, with the exception of the Muslim countries.

In return, The Muslim world, and specifically the Muslims of the West, introduced defensive terms such as "Islamophobia", which has become the current favorite for dozens of Islamic organizations in the West. The term "phobia" denotes an unreasonable, perhaps imaginary fear, one that is a mental disorder. The new term "Islamolphobia" has served those organizations well in their fervent promotion of two false concepts:

* First, that the legitimate fear that Islam is being misused by Terrorists is in fact a prejudice against Islam itself and a kind of phobia; and

* Second, that Terrorists do not represent Islam.

If Terrorists do not indeed represent Islam, then why do religious authorities in Muslim countries refrain from voicing an absolute condemnation of the Terrorists, why aren't they called infidels and renegades, and why allow them to remain part of the Islamic Body?

UPDATE on the Copenhagen demonstration: MURDER ATTEMPT ON SIOE/SIAD DENMARK LEAD…: Oct 26, 2007 4:58am 3 reviews islam
http://sioe.wordpress.com/2007/10/25/update-on-the-copenhagen-demonstration-m...; Sunday the 21th October was not only a severe attack on freedom of speech but an attempt to close the mouth forever on an organisation who stands up for freedom, freedom of speech and for democracy. Small details were the reason why it didn't ended up with murder like in Holland, on one of the brave advocate's for freedom of expression who dare to stand in the frontline.

More on the "Islamo-fascism" fallacy: Oct 26, 2007 1:58am 3 reviews islam
http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/009089.html; I gave in and read a article by Christopher Hitchens at Slate (there is also a excerpt from it at LGF followed by many comments) in which he defends the term "Islamo-fascism." The piece seems learned, but is sophomoric. It is slick ignorance parading as deep knowledge. Echoing an unfortunate Tony Blankley editorial in the Washington Times a year ago, Hitchens lists various obvious similarities between jihadism and fascism: violence, power-seeking, anti-intellectualism, nostalgia for lost glories, worship of a leader, hatred of Jews, etc., and for him these parallels prove that the words "Islam" and "fascism" are legally married.

The basic problem is that Islam, being sui generis, can only be properly understood in its own terms. To explain jihadism as a type of fascism is to explain Islam in terms of something other than itself, and so is fundamentally to misunderstand it. The Islamic rules of war and truce, the Islamic rules of dhimmitude, the Islamic rules of marriage and sexual relations, the Islamic rules concerning treatment of apostates, are neither based on nor analogous to any Western belief system; they are, as Andrew Bostom points out over and over, uniquely Islamic. But Western intellectuals love their non-Islam theories of Islamic extremism, because they don't want to bother learning about any subject that is truly non-Western and that does not fit into their familiar concepts. If they can describe Islam as "fascism," they feel satisfied, confident that they have now comprehended Islam and that they know how to deal with it. We've defeated fascism before, they tell their readers, and we can do it again. And so they trot out yet more false analogies, to World War II and to the Cold War (though there the analogy is to Communist totalitarianism rather than to the Fascist kind) which are delusive and dangerous because they don't portray Islam as it actually is.

Gates of Vienna: Aint No "Free" Speech in the EUSSR: Its Going to Be EXPENSIVE: Oct 21, 2007 9:02am 2 reviews journalism
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2007/10/aint-no-free-speech-in-eussr-its-go...; From the page: "Ain't No "Free" Speech in the EUSSR: It's Going to Be EXPENSIVE

by Dymphna

The following is a comment that Yorkshire Miner left in a recent post, �oeItaly�s Plan to Shut Down the Internet.”

He says:

Stop worrying about Italy start worrying about the E.U.

What you read below are just a few snippets I clipped out of proposals for new regulations from the supreme soviet in Brussels. These proposals are to combat the rampant xenophobia and racism that is such an integral part of the white man�s makeup.

Read them and cry, because if they become law we are screwed. The devil is in the small print. I think the buzz word to describe the paragraph below would be �oeproactive”.

Put in plain language, it means that �oewe decide what is racist and xenophobic and if we don�t like what you have to say we will prosecute you.”

Look out Vlaams Belang and the BNP, the end is nigh.

(8) It should be ensured that investigations and prosecutions of offences involving racism and xenophobia are not dependent on reports or accusation made by victims, who are often particularly vulnerable and reluctant to initiate legal proceedings.

If you can disentangle the legal jargon in the following (Article 10) it means �oeif you are a European Blogger and post on an American server we can still get you”:
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Article 10

Jurisdiction

1. Each Member State shall take the necessary measures to establish its jurisdiction with regard to the conduct referred to in Articles 1 and 2 where the conduct has been committed:

(a) in whole or in part within its territory; or

(b) by one of its nationals; or

(c) for the benefit of a legal person that has its head office in the territory of that Member State.

2. When establishing jurisdiction in accordance with paragraph 1(a), each Member State shall take the necessary measures to ensure that its jurisdiction extends to cases where the conduct is committed through an information system and:

(a) the offender commits the conduct when physically present in its territory, whether or not the conduct involves material hosted on an information system in its territory;

(b) the conduct involves material hosted on an information system in its territory, whether or not the offender commits the conduct when physically present in its territory.

[…]

4. A Member State may decide not to apply, or to apply only in specific cases or circumstances, the jurisdiction rule set out in paragraphs 1(b) and (c).

This, by the way, is the most disgusting part of the proposals.

These sanctions are nothing more than Draconian. They not only turn you into a non-person but they punish your family as well.

I presume (that a judicial winding-up order) is nothing more than a posh name for forced bankruptcy to pay for the inflated compensation to the dress- wearing camel herder you decided I had insulted.

Article 6

Sanctions for legal persons

1. Each Member State shall take the necessary measures to ensure that a legal person held liable pursuant to Article 5(1) is punishable by effective, proportionate and dissuasive sanctions, which shall include criminal or non-criminal fines and may include other sanctions, such as:

(a) exclusion from entitlement to public benefits or aid;

(b) temporary or permanent disqualification from the practice of commercial activities;

(c) placing under judicial supervision;

(d) a judicial winding-up order.

2. Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that a legal person held liable pursuant to Article 5(2) is punishable by effective, proportionate and dissuasive sanctions or measures.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

As I was reading these amazing legal provisions that Yorkshire Miner sent -- these utopian "protections" for non-ethnic Europeans -- I thought of China�s draconian internet rules. It made me wonder: will Google have a new customer in the form of the Soviet EU? It certainly has done a good job in killing free speech for China. I'm sure it would have no qualms about stuffing the gag in Europe's mouth either.

Maybe it�s time to buy Google stock…again… --Dymphna"

The Jawa Report: Islamic Blog: "Terrorism is Part of Islam": Oct 10, 2007 4:17pm 1 review islam
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/189721.php; From the page: "Islamic Blog: "Terrorism is Part of Islam"

terrorism_part_islam_caravanofmartyrs.jpg

A moment of honesty from Muslim blogger "Caravan of Martyrs". Terrifying & horrifying honesty. Quoting a book "caravanofmartyrs" says:

�oeTerrorism is a part of Islaam; And whosoever denies that, he has disbelieved” ...

Therefore, we are obliged to have ta�assie (resemblance) to the messengers and to the messenger Muhammad (saw), to always speak the Haq [truth] wherever we are and not to fear any consequences.

Thanks for the clarification!

Instead of trying to convince non-believers that Islam is a religion of peace, wouldn't it be nice if CAIR and MPACUK focused their attention on Muslims like "caravanofmartyrs" instead?

Let's see, which is more of a threat? 1) Muslim who believes that terrorism is integral part of Islam. 2) Non Muslims suspicious of Muslims because they might just believe that Islam promotes terrorism."

Exposing "Reverend" Sutter: Sutters Grand Navy Career... a Fizzle: Oct 2, 2007 2:01pm 2 reviews military, fraud, impostor, revjimsutter, federal-crimes
http://exposingsutter.blogspot.com/2007/10/sutters-grand-navy-career-fizzle.html; This should come as no surprise but the information request on Sutter confirms what I had begun to suspect. Sutter couldn't even make it a full year in his Navy enlistment. His actual dates of service were from October 22, 1975 to June 8th 1976. As Sutter says on his fictional biography "do the math" That is just short of eight months. And it was during a time of peace after the Vietnam war.

In short Sutter *never* was a members.aol.com/revjimsutter/revjim.html [members.aol.com/revjimsutter/revjim.html] ">Lieutenant Commander he did *not* spend 26 years in USN counterterrorism he was never in Afghanistan fighting the Taliban he never went to Naval War College or trained with the IDF. He *never earned *any* medals. He is a impostor who is who fraudulently claiming to be decorated Naval Officer. He has never received The Navy Cross, Medal of Valor, A members.aol.com/revjimsutter/revjim.html [members.aol.com/revjimsutter/revjim.html] ">Presidential Unit Citation, members.aol.com/revjimsutter/revjim.html [members.aol.com/revjimsutter/revjim.html] ">the Bronze Star a members.aol.com/revjimsutter/revjim.html [members.aol.com/revjimsutter/revjim.html] ">Combat Medal and members.aol.com/revjimsutter/revjim.html [members.aol.com/revjimsutter/revjim.html] ">four Purple Hearts.

I wonder if Sutter has ever heard of the Stolen Valor Act of 2005. Then there is the small problem of Sutter impersonating an officer. Maybe Sutter should be watching more NCIS.

Mr Sutter should look at ladypredator.com/Sutter/Sutter_FOIA.pdf [ladypredator.com/Sutter/Sutter_FOIA.pdf] that is what the Navy will send anyone who inquired about the fraud who pretends he had a "career" in the navy. Go to phonyrev.com/pages/mil-26-years.htm [phonyrev.com/pages/mil-26-years.htm] and see how anyone can get the same letter from the Navy revealing Sutter for the liar he is.

Vanishing American: On political correctness, multiculturalism, and their effect…: Sep 30, 2007 12:37pm 1 review culture
http://vanishingamerican.blogspot.com/2007/09/on-political-correctness.html; From the page: "On political correctness, multiculturalism, and their effects

In a recent thread here on this blog, commenter james c opined that multiculturalism and political correctness seem to have started within the Anglosphere. This thought caused me to want to explore the origins of political correctness and multiculturalism, so this entry will be a very tentative attempt to consider that question. I hope my readers will feel free to offer their own thoughts on this subject.

Of course we all have a general idea of how and where these poisonous ideas started. Political correctness is also known as 'cultural Marxism', and it is an attempt to apply Marxist ideas to the social sphere. Economic or political Marxism focus on the means of production and the economic connection between human beings, or more accurately, between classes of people. In fact, the economic nexus is the explanation for everything in the Marxist world view. Cultural Marxism tends to focus, again, on groups of people, and on the power relationships between them. And of course those with power, or apparent power, are cast in the role of villains in the same way that the rich or the bourgeoisie are the villains in the economic view according to Marx. The downtrodden, the 'wretched of the earth', the workers, the exploited classes, are the heroes in that scheme of things. In cultural Marxism, socially 'exploited' or oppressed groups, those who are weak in some way, those who are less successful, those who are outsiders or outlaws are the heroes by virtue of their weakness and ascribed victim status. And the system of speech codes and social hierarchies which we call political correctness is just a way of codifying the social order as seen by the cultural Marxists, with minorities, women, gays, and Third Worlders (not necessarily in that order) as the apex of the pyramid. Members of those groups are to be treated with kid gloves, spoken of in exaggeratedly respectful terms, exempted from criticism and from accountability for their actions, and above all, must not be offended in any way, whether by failing to display proper deference or by using a taboo name to designate these groups.

What political correctness does is to attempt to coerce respect for groups of people regardless of inward attitude. It attempts to coerce and enforce feelings and thoughts. It is akin to forcing conversion to a religion and demanding that the unwilling participant display reverence without belief. It demands insincerity, because it fails to acknowledge that you cannot coerce feeling or thought. You can only coerce behavior, outward compliance, which is hollow and empty.

So, since we know that political correctness is an offshoot of Marxism and leftism in general, how did it come to be so dominant in America? And did it originate here, or were Americans the first to adopt it to a large extent? There were others who contributed to the growth of the system we now call political correctness, among them, Antonio Gramsci, an Italian Marxist, and George Lukacs, a Hungarian. They perceived that Marxism, as it was originally proposed, was not working in the West. As time went on, the United States seemed impervious to the efforts to mobilize the proletariat to revolt, because American blue-collar workers began to be the best-paid in the world. A 'proletariat' which lived a comfortable middle-class lifestyle, as many skilled tradespeople and factory workers did in America during much of the 20th century, was not likely to rally to the cry to revolt. Some Marxists began to see blacks as the substitute for the 'proletariat' as the vanguard of the revolution, and it's well-known that efforts were made to encourage disaffection and rebellion among blacks. This bore fruit by the mid-20th century.

Much of the ferment in leftist thinking occurred in Europe, with the so-called Frankfurt School and Critical Theory, which attempted to bring down Western culture simply by relentlessly criticizing every aspect of the culture from the angle of every 'oppressed' or aggrieved group. It was an attempt to discredit the existing order of things and to foment more dissatisfaction and anger to be channeled into revolt. And of course by this time, the ideas of Gramsci, who advocated infiltrating all the existing institutions to bring them down from within, had mostly supplanted the old-fashioned idea of armed revolt.

Another factor which strengthened the left's war on America was the youth culture of the 1960s, in which the baby-boom generation, the millions of young people who grew up during the prosperous 50s, reached adolescence. This group, of which I am one, was a rather spoiled and privileged group who, when confronted with the imperfections of the adult world, responded with petulance and rebellion. The so-called 'New Left', based in the Frankfurt School, and represented by people like Herbert Marcuse and Erich Fromm, saw in the Boomers a restless but malleable gr

Jihad Watch: Fitzgerald: Every government official, every FBI agent, every DHS b…: Sep 30, 2007 5:39am 2 reviews islam, al-qaeda
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/018317.php; It soon became clear why these particular documents had not been directed to the West. They were theological treatises, revolving around what Islam commands Muslims to do vis-�-vis non-Muslims. The documents rarely made mention of all those things -- Zionism, Bush's "Crusade," malnourished Iraqi children -- that formed the core of Al Qaeda's messages to the West. Instead, they were filled with countless Koranic verses, hadiths (traditions attributed to the Prophet Muhammad), and the consensus and verdicts of Islam's most authoritative voices. The temporal and emotive language directed at the West was exchanged for the eternal language of Islam when directed at Muslims. Or, put another way, the language of "reciprocity" was exchanged for that of intolerant religious fanaticism. There was, in fact, scant mention of the words "West," "U.S.," or "Israel." All of those were encompassed by that one Arabic-Islamic word, "kufr" -- "infidelity" -- the regrettable state of being non-Muslim that must always be fought through "tongue and teeth." - from this article by Raymond Ibrahim

Jorn Holme, and all those who continue to believe that there is something called "Islamism" that is a threat, and something called "Islam" that is not a threat, that is perfectly fine, that makes no claims on Infidel institutions or Infidel lives, should start, perhaps, by reading the article, linked above, by Raymond Ibrahim that has just appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Ibrahim, who is a researcher in the Near East Division of the Library of Congress, has had the intelligence to publish the writings of Al Qaeda members. Ibrahim noticed that these assorted manifestos and appeals, when addressed to Infidel audiences, always contained some rhetoric about such obvious "grievances" as Iraq, "Palestine," Kashmir, Kosovo, and so on. This litany, however, was completely absent from the writings and speeches directed at fellow Muslims. For them, Bin Laden, Al-Zawahiri, and others had no need to deceive ("war is deception") but could stick to Islam -- plain Islam.

WorldNetDaily: 'Not a single Christian' in birthplace of Christ: Sep 26, 2007 9:12am 2 reviews islam, middle-east, christian
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57797; The once vibrant Christian communities of Bethlehem and Nazareth, with roots in the "land of Jesus" going back to first century Israel, are rapidly declining in the face of a systematic campaign of persecution conducted by the same Muslim terrorists intent on driving the Jews into the sea.
Beatings, sham legal proceedings, property seizures, dismissal and replacement of elected Christian leaders, accusations of selling property to Jews and intimidation by gunmen with links to the government of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas have so reduced Christian populations in the cities of Jesus' birth and boyhood one community leader predicts all Christians will be gone within 15 years.

In "Schmoozing with Terrorists: From Hollywood to the Holy Land Jihadists Reveal their Global Plans – to a Jew!" author and WND Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein chronicles his meetings and interviews with leaders of terror groups and Islamist organizations long accused of intimidation and violence against Mideast Christians.
'No more Christians in Bethlehem'
For part of one chapter, Klein travels to Bethlehem to meet with the city's Christians and with its terrorist leaders.
Bethlehem consisted of upwards of 80 percent Christians when Israel was founded in 1948, but since the Palestinian Authority took over in 1995 the Christian population has declined to about 23 percent with a large majority of Muslims. The 23 percent Christian statistic is considered generous since it includes the satellite towns of Beit Sahour and Beit Jala. Some estimates place Bethlehem's actual Christian population as low as 12 percent, with hundreds of Christians emigrating per year.
In "Schmoozing," Klein first talks with Bethlehem-area Christian leaders and residents, most of whom spoke on condition of anonymity, who said they face an atmosphere of regular hostility and intimidation by Muslims. They said Palestinian armed groups stir tension by holding militant demonstrations and marches in the streets. They spokes of instances in which Christian shopkeepers' stores were recently ransacked and Christian homes attacked.

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