A) US markets have long been propped up with black budget war funds.
B) The Iraq War has generated the largest black budget war funds.
C) US markets have been manipulated to justify outright looting.
Are you suggesting this is evidence 9/11 was an inside job?
Kind of a throwaway post but I'm finding I'm becoming more angry than worried at the moment. Crimes and no punishment. The story of the Bush years.
Libby |
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09.20.08 - 5:01 pm | #
Black budget war funds are economically far worse than other ways of spending the money. They don't produce capital growth with any efficiency at all. Other ways of spending the money produce far greater economic return.
Black budget war funds don't prop up the markets.
ProfWombat |
09.20.08 - 5:01 pm | #
I'm guessing posting will be sporadic tomorrow.
Ali |
09.20.08 - 5:02 pm | #
Half marathon?
I'll take the Polar Plunge over that any day.
rorschach |
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09.20.08 - 5:02 pm | #
my hairdresser runs half marathons and triathlons
Moonbootica, Brit Lefty |
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09.20.08 - 5:02 pm | #
And Atrios, long distance running may turn out to be a useful skill if you have to outrun creditors... I might consider taking it up myself.
Libby |
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09.20.08 - 5:03 pm | #
Start slow and you'll be fine.
Ali |
09.20.08 - 5:03 pm | #
I'm guessing posting will be sporadic tomorrow.
Ali | 09.20.08 - 5:02 pm | #
So you'll be spending tomorrow dehydrated and puking? No sheets. I'll start a book. Thanks for the heads up, dude.
Monica_A: Axe Diesel |
09.20.08 - 5:03 pm | #
one of the jeopardy contestents a couple nights ago was a half marathin runner.
she looked to be in her 50s.
dirk gently, sociopathetic |
09.20.08 - 5:04 pm | #
not good - massive bomb blast has hit the Marriott Hotel in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, killing at least 40 people.
The hotel's owner said the explosion occurred when a lorry, which was being checked by security staff and sniffer dogs blew up at the hotel's entrance.
The blast created a 20ft (6m) deep crater, and destroyed the entire front section of the hotel.
President Asif Ali Zardari condemned the attack and vowed to "continue to fight terrorism and extremism".
In a statement, he said: "Such dastardly acts cannot dent the government's commitment to fight this menace."
It's like watching No Name City collapse into the tunnels at the end of Paint Your Wagon.
catalexis |
09.20.08 - 5:06 pm | #
Black budget war funds don't prop up the markets.
If your company is the one who's supplying gear, and services for those black budget projects, those can be extremely profitable.
When McDonald-Douglas was still a separate company, I remember the wailing at their stockholder's meeting, when getting into some aspect of the civilian tech market was proposed. The stockholders did not want the company to be trying to operate with such "unprofitable" projects.
Doug |
09.20.08 - 5:06 pm | #
You signed up for a fundraiser for a bank?
George Johnston |
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09.20.08 - 5:06 pm | #
Where is the evidence that black military budgets prop up markets?
They don't seem to have done.
ProfWombat |
09.20.08 - 5:07 pm | #
Heh. They always seem like a good idea when you sign up. Runners are optimists.
TJ, just tryin' to get by |
09.20.08 - 5:07 pm | #
Mr. Boehner added: “Efforts to exploit this crisis for political leverage or partisan quid pro quo will only delay the economic stability that families, seniors, and small businesses deserve.”
How frigging condescending can he be? Families and small businesses deserve a $700 billion dollar bill? It's bad enough this disaster happened due to greed and ignorance on the part of Boehner and his supporters. Don't tell me it's for my own good.
Neponset |
09.20.08 - 5:07 pm | #
America's Black Budget & the
Manipulation of Mortgage & Financial Markets
all the sponsored sports, fuck, nascar is going to be really boring without a bunch of bank logos to watch
mooncalendargirl |
09.20.08 - 5:07 pm | #
all those aig-sponsored soccer teams in europe must be shitting now
mooncalendargirl
there will always be money for footie.
Ali |
09.20.08 - 5:08 pm | #
Well, I can't imagine the Bush administration, or, indeed, any Republican, exploiting a crisis for partisan political gain. Certainly, they haven't ever done such a thing.
Why, just yesterday, i heard John McCain utter an entire sentence that didn't refer to either his time as POW or the traitoriousness of those who'd vote for Obama over, as he puts it, love of country,...
ProfWombat |
09.20.08 - 5:09 pm | #
sure but fannie derivative bomb humping plunder of the chimp money for footie?
mooncalendargirl |
09.20.08 - 5:10 pm | #
Doug: no argument, if you're a military contractor. But, dollar for dollar, civilian investment is far more productive economically than military investment.
ProfWombat |
09.20.08 - 5:10 pm | #
On Sept. 10, 2001, Donald Rumsfeld said the Pentagon was "missing" $2.3 TRILLION:
Money for guns, for drugs, for money...
Lather, Rinse, Repeat |
09.20.08 - 5:11 pm | #
all the big stars must be depressed about losing their sponsorships to a bunch of evangelical retards in the government
mooncalendargirl |
09.20.08 - 5:12 pm | #
hey cath, tell us about the keating 5 and how this whole bailout chatter is just a way of wrecking that pesky congress and the electoral process, tell us about weapons dealers who own cable and broadcast media and just got immunity for data mining, tell us about how this is all just a market test windup for the big show
mooncalendargirl |
09.20.08 - 5:25 pm | #
"I'm running away from you, crippled bitch"-John McCain to Carol
jr |
09.20.08 - 6:15 pm | #
good luck atrios-- start out slow and taper off
trick |
09.20.08 - 6:43 pm | #
Its a half, whats the big deal?
Beltstars |
09.20.08 - 6:59 pm | #
running sucks
but make your kids run a lot cause its good for em
Cole DBiers |
09.20.08 - 9:10 pm | #
i hope your race went well. i did a triathlon today. didn't have a great outing, but i'm glad i'm fit enough to do it!
sarah |
09.21.08 - 3:42 pm | #