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Barack Obama's getting a Cadillac-styled new Presidential Limo tomorrow. While nice, we're more interested in the Gatling gun-equipped Suburban that follows Cadillac One. Here's video of the bullet-spraying Chevy in action.
Is your job tough? Like, leader of the free world tough? Do you have people constantly throwing shoes at you? It's time you replied with a measured, appropriate response -- and that response is a Dillon Aero machine gun turret mounted on top of a Chevy Suburban -- just like the one the President's got! So...ya wanna hack into my Blackberry, do ya?
We've already shown you Obama's new Presidential limo, below, now here's the big gun watching its back.
Isn't that thing a little bit of an overkill? That thing will kill quite a few "peasants" on the sidelines won't it Obama, while trying to take out one assassin...
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I'm more than a bit surprised that they don't have a remote weapon station doing the job. The man-operated Dillon is nothing but a supression weapon. That said, I suppose that is the intent...keep their heads down (or off should they be hit) while they hightail it outta there.
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damn and we only had saw gunners on our live fire convoys exercises in the army, which was cool. but that my friend, (nervous laughter) that is ridiculously cool.
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I saw that on aLobotomy Box Show a few months back. Can't remember which one. I don't recall it actually being considered for use, though.
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My response was the same as remoteman's. I laughed to see someone do that to a Suburban, but it isn't really all that practical. A smaller remote turret like the ones they're fielding in Iraq seems much more reasonable. Not to mention I have to wonder what kind of mess that'll make of the inevitable crowd of on-lookers. Talk about spray-and-pray...
Posted by: Mitch H. ||
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yes, it would make a mess. could it be more of a message that says "dont f with us?" because curse the day that thing was actually used. it would be like Rambo with the fifty cal that was just cutting people down, but not before cutting them in half wouldnt it? hell why not carry some RPGs in there too? its overkill factor is its beauty and beastliness all rolled into one.
Posted by: Bill Snaque5795 ||
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Unless used as a crowd control measure, Rounds Per Minute is not necessarily an accurage gauge of effectiveness or deterrent. I doubt that weapon will be welcomed anywhere overseas. Just my guess.
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I don't know anything about this stuff but is this more of a cool toy than a tool?
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It is a toy, IMHO. Think of the threat. A bunch of fellows shooting RPGs or missiles with shape charge warheads in a swarm would be a hard one to have countermeasures made for. It could be done, but not on a Chevy.
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Now if they could just get the Dillon Gun operators to dress like this:
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"How fast it can gobble up matter to grow bigger ... ... ...Casadio, Fabi, and Harms think the Balck Holes would lose out, and pass through the earth, or out of the atmosphere it got to be a problem".
...BEFORE IT GOT TO BE A "PROBLEM" > wel-l-l, that why scientists must engage in broad multiple reviews of their calculations and methods, LEST THE EARTH BE DESTROYED REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THE HOLE IS INSIDE THE ATMOSPHERE, OR OUTSIDE CLOSE TO EARTH.
DITTO FOR 2030 + COMET APOPHIS [2029-2036/38] - EVEN THE DESIRED FUTURE OWG-NWO [Global Socialism], GLOBALCRITTERS + POLITICOS, DON'T WANT TO BE HELD POLITICALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR MAKING SCIEN MISCALCULATIONS WHCIH END UP CAUSING APOPHIS TO DESTROY THE MOON = CAUSE THE MOON TO CRASH INTO EARTH, NOW DO THEY!?
And APOPHIS scenarios are NOT even counting the SUN + OTHER RUSSIAN SPACE ROCKS + GAMMA RAY BURSTS [independent/unknown variables]???
D *** NG IT, MORIARITY, WOULDN'T IT BE SILLY FOR NASA-JPL, DARPA, + AREA 51, ETC. TO COVERTLY BUILD GIANT, MILE(S)-LONG "ALIEN UFOS" SUPER-CRAFTS, CONSUMING EXPENSIVE $$$ + TIME + MEDIA CORRECTNESS/DENIABILITY, THAT AREN'T ABLE TO ESCAPE A MAJOR EARTH EPOCH/CATACLYSM ["incoming"] WHEN NEED TO!?
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APOPHIS = MOON EXPLOSIONS SEEN ON EARTH > the FIRST + GREATEST? "OOOOOOOOOOOPPPPPPSIES, YOUR BAD" in OWG-NWO RUSH LIMBAUGH-IAN "HISTOIREZ" [vous] + GLOBAL PCORRECTNESS [since OWG = Politicians aren't likely to blame themselves even as per LHC BLACK HOLES, APOPHIS, ETC.???
versus:
DREAM > HE WILL SEE THE COMET STRIKE THE EARTH WITH THE TWO WITNESSES .......
* FUTURAMA > D *** NG IT, PEOPLE, WE CAN'T EMPHASIZE IT ENUFF - DON'T DATE ROBOTS [or MERMAIDS]!
Having apparently lost its clout over the past two years, Egypt's protest group Kefaya (Enough) has vowed to rejuvenate its tactics after electing a new leader.
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Bringing Nation Building to Zim are we? But he's.... democratically elected, just like YOU! How about taking care of domestic issues first and let those buggers take care of their own troubles?
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Mugabe offered me a Trillion 'Zim-Bucks' for that senate seat.
How could I turn THAT down?
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It's only worth 20 bucks, Blago. The zeros don't do sh*t for zim-bucks.
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Knock it off, gentlemen.
There was nothing democratic about that election. There are millions of innocent people suffering a hell they don't deserve. SOMEBODY has to take the initiative.
But that somebody should be a Zimbobwayan. Or doesn't the Pottery Barn Rule apply here?
We cannot and should not get involved in overthrowing every tyrant unless the national interest is at stake. The national interest was more at stake when the Smith regime overthrew the legitimate government. Zimbob is at least the legitimate government, whether you like the way the election was conducted or not. Or would foreign intervention be welcome in Illinois? Do we have a duty to save the Russians from Putin? The Venezuelans from Chavez? The English from Brown?
If he wants to send the CIA over to help an indigenous resistance movement, great. If the United States is going into the business of overthrowing governments, he ought at least to get a authorization for the use of force like Bush did when he took out Saddam.
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If the United States is going into the business of overthrowing governments....
Never happen, not an African governement. Not on O.B.'s watch. Now if it were a blue eye devil Apartheid government. well that would be another matter entirely.
ROLE OF LIBERIA + SOUTH AFRICA + MADAGASCAR + NIGERIA-KENYA???
The Commies + Islamists would never had dared under OBAMA's POTUS PREDECESSORS, i.e. NIXON + REAGAN-BUSH 1 - THE BAM-MAN'S GOT HIS WORK CUT OUT FOR HIM THESE "100 DAYS".
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Folks, folks, it's different when a Democrat does it. Don't you know? Mom does ...
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It would be nice if he removed Bob. Hire mercs to rally the locals on the ground and provide air cover and a one-way ticket out (he can be whacked en route if need be).
The South African army's not gonna invade Zim and throw the bastards out. Bob is going to die in office, old, unloved, possibly even carried off by demons in his last hours. Then one of his cronies is going to take over and scour the country for any nickles the old man and Grace might have missed.
Grace doesn't look like the type to let many nickles go unnabbed.
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The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) recommended Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Ltd (BTCL) to permanently close all its telegraph offices after a probe revealed that expenditure of the almost idle and corruption-riddled offices were 15 times their income between 2000 and 2008.
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Government policies will result in Sweden's army being reduced by one third and the number of tanks being cut in half, Armed Forces Supreme Commander Håkan Syrén is set to announce on Friday. Advance word about the massive cuts comes from a report in the Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) newspaper, citing sources within military headquarters.
A government directive to the Supreme Commander from November confirms that the military budget will be frozen at 38.9 billion kronor ($4.9 billion) per year through 2014. But at the same time must every unit within the military's operational forces be able to deploy more rapidly.
On Friday, the Supreme Commander will respond that the new requirements will mean dissolving operational units and a reduction in vital weapons systems, say several military headquarters sources to SvD.
The army will be hit the hardest. "There will be a 30 percent reduction of ground forces units," once source told the newspaper.
The number of soldiers and officers deployable for combat will be cut to 12,500, down from the current level of 20,000.
According to SvD, the cuts mean that the army will retain seven tactical battalions and that one battalion will be take from the amphibious corps and instead counted in ground combat forces. In total, Sweden's army will be left with eight battalions.
The military is also expected to shed half of its battle tanks. The government has said that tank battle groups should consist of lighter units which can easily be transported. In other words, according to SvD, the request means reducing the number of tanks.
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On the other hand it took two major world wars in the 20th Century to induce a major aversion into the German culture for similar hobbies. Nothing sad about it. It's a feature, not a bug.
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It's a feature Pro only as long as they do not need to defend themselves. Basically the Swedes will complete their surrender to dhimmitude within 10 years. They and Holland are in a race to the bottom.
Until now, Russia and Ukraine have traded gas through an intermediary, RosUkrEnergo, a secretive, Swiss-based company which many have blamed for the crisis.
Both Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart, Yulia Tymoshenko, now say they want to eliminate the middleman and trade gas directly.
(AKI) - A union leader was charged in an Istanbul court on Monday bringing to 18 the number of new suspects accused of planning a military coup against the Turkish government. Turkish media reports said that the 18 were among 26 people detained by police around the country as part of the controversial Ergenekon investigation.
They also searched the offices of a private TV channel and a union in the capital Ankara.
Turkish Metal Union chairman Mustafa Ozbek, seven military officers and ten police officers were charged by the court, while the other eight, including Turkish union executives, were released without charge.
Meanwhile three other suspects who had been held under arrest for nearly a year as part of the Ergenekon investigation were released by the Istanbul High Crime Court on Saturday.
A poll released on Monday showed that close to half the Turkish nation believes that Ergenekon was established to overthrow the government through a military coup. But one in five Turks thinks the investigation is simply being used to suppress the opposition.
According to the nationwide poll of 2,400 people, 49.3 percent of respondents identified Ergenekon as a case in which "crime gangs and military coup plotters are trialled".
The Ergenekon probe is seen as one of the most controversial cases in Turkey's history. It was launched in 2007 after the discovery of hand grenades in a house in Istanbul.
More than 80 people, including journalists, intellectuals, union leaders, business leaders, army officers, police officers, and retired generals, are charged with forming an illegal, clandestine organisation in a bid to pave the way for a military coup.
The group is accused of terrorist acts in Turkey and of allegedly planning a coup in 2009.
The alleged masterminds behind this coup plot are generals Kemal Yavuz and Tuncer Kilinc. Both were arrested recently.
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Ergenekon investigation---Turkey's version of Reichstag's fire.
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Corrupt Union Officials, not relegated to just the USA
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TURKEY today is also reportedly now interested in dev and engaging in its own indigenous URANIUM ENRICHMENT = NUCLEAR CYCLES, vee IFF IRAN CAN DO IT, WHY CAN'T WE!?
The US Senate has confirmed Timothy Geithner as Treasury Secretary in Obama's administration despite misgivings over his past income tax issues. The Senate approved his nomination on a 60-34 vote on Monday.
Geithner was expected to be sworn in quickly to help lead President Barack Obama's efforts to stabilize a worsening economy. The new Treasury chief is expected to soon unveil reforms to the United States' $700 billion financial bailout program to provide more support for housing and credit markets, and possibly a new effort to absorb troubled assets from banks.
"I would rather have a battle hardened veteran at the helm who knows the shoals and whirlpools than a neophyte who has to wade into these churning waters for the first time," Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah said during debate on the nomination against Geithner.
Some lawmakers were also disturbed enough by the tax lapse to vote against Geithner even though they thought him well suited for the job otherwise.
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The names and votes listed below clearly highlight the problem with the Republican party:
Bond (R), Not Voting, Montana
Crapo (R), Yes, Illinois
Corker (R), Yes, Texas
Ensign (R), Yes, New Hampshire
Graham (R), Yes, South Carolina
Gregg (R), Yes, New Jersey
Hatch (R), Yes, Vermont
Shelby (R), Yes, Alabama
Snowe (R), Yes, Maryland
Voinovich (R), Yes, Oklahoma
Lieberman (I), Yes, Delaware
(Graham and Lieberman both voted opposite their "big pal" Senator John McCain)
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If Snarlin' Arlen Specter could figure this one out, nobody has an excuse. I'm especially shocked by Hatch (Utah) and Shelby. Some people shopuld be more concerned about their primaries.
BARACK Obama's approval ratings have nosedived by 15 points after only six days in office, according to a new poll. The Gallup poll shows that reality is setting in for the new US President after the euphoria that greeted his inauguration last Tuesday. But his ratings still stand at an impressive 68 per cent despite the fall.
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Four weeks and he'll be at 8 points if the trend continues.
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The press will massage the numbers to the extent that they are able, so that his approval ratings never appear to go below 50%, even if the reality is not the case.
Never forget Evan Thomas' 10-15% rule.
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They are saying his approval rating was at 83%?
If ya believe that let me tell you bout the time I beat kim-jong in golf.
You really don't understand how this country works. It's not a parliamentary dictatorship. Ask Johnson. Or Nixon. Or Ford. Or Carter. Or Reagan. Or Clinton. Or Bush.
Israel's election race is back in full swing following the Gaza war and front-runner Benjamin Netanyahu has moved quickly to deflect allegations his victory could mean conflict with new U.S. President Barack Obama.
Claiming some of the middle ground in Israel occupied by the ruling Kadima party, Netanyahu told Middle East envoy Tony Blair that a government headed by his right-wing Likud party would not build new Jewish settlements, though would expand existing ones.
"Like all the governments there have been until now, I will have to meet the needs of natural growth in the population. I will not be able to choke the settlements," Netanyahu said, according to a spokesman for the Likud chief on Monday.
While such policy is opposed internationally and condemned by Palestinians seeking a state in the West Bank, it nonetheless puts Netanyahu broadly in line with the Kadima-led government and the party's prime ministerial candidate in the February 10 election, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni.
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It doesn't matter WHO wins in Israel, they're going to have "conflict with the new US President". The surrender-monkey Obambi will not be nice to "winners". Israel MUST win in its battle against its enemies, or disappear.
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How about we give them O.B. and three roles of 90 MPH tape for Olmert, and we take Bebe too?
TEHRAN, Iran -- The first mixed soccer game -- females vs. males -- since the 1979 Islamic revolution led to swift punishment Monday, as an Iranian soccer club said it had suspended three officials involved and handed out fines of up to $5,000. adult females vs. young males
Iran's strict Islamic rules ban any physical contact between unrelated men and women, and Iranian women are even banned from attending soccer games when male teams play.
The officials -- a coach and two managers -- first denied the game took place, but video clips on cell phones of the game somehow cell phones aren't banned
were used as evidence against them, the Vatan-e-Emrooz daily newspaper reported. but Allah is merciful and no one was executed
According to the Esteghlal soccer club, Mohammad Khorramgah, the club's technical manager, was suspended for a year and fined 50 million rials ($5,000) for the Jan. 20 game.
The only woman among the suspended -- Saeedeh Pournader, head coach of the female team -- also got a year's suspension. Mostafa Ardestani, head coach of the youth team, got a six-month suspension and a 20 million rial ($2,000) fine.
A prominent Iranian soccer player and manager of the club's soccer academy, Ali Reza Mansourian, got a written rebuke and a fine of 50 million rials, the club said.
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OTOH, the good news for IRAN + RADICAL ISLAM/ISLMAIST SHARIA is that in JAPAN, THERE'S REPOR A PETITION OUT TO ALLOW JAPANESE TO LEGALLY "MARRY" CARTOONS = ANIME!?
Read, SAILOR MOON + GHOST IN THE SHELL + ...@etc.
AT least when 10-year old INDIAN GIRLS marry FROGS as per their local Community's or Region's religious-cultural beliefs, AT LEAST THE FROGS = KERMIT IS ACTUALLY ALIVE???
Concern about the recently passed Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act is just beginning to bubble to the top of the news cycle (In between hyperventilating about corporate jets and Michele Obama's dress sense, of course)
Basically, the cost of testing for lead contaminants and other nasties in products intended for the use of children under the age of 12 may very well bankrupt a whole range of small companies, and hand-crafters who run tiny businesses out of their homes... not to mention removing a those same products from second-hand and thrift stores.
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(Mods - can you add the pic of the two vultures? Ta -thanks, then.)
This story has barely made a ripple in mainstream news, but it looks to have the makings of an economic tsunami - and the MSM and our fearless pols are managing to heroically ignore it. The Bankruptcy Day website is here, and my own take on it here.
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This is one of a number of events that are going to occur in the not too distant future that will culminate in the repudiation of the Rooseveltian New Deal social contract and the establishment of a new one whose character is unknown. I would add the exhaustion of federal debt capacity, repudiation of obligations of unfunded government employee pensions, bankruptcy of medicare, nationalization of health care and defederalization of auto emission standards to the over-reaches of this model that will tip it into the ash heap of history. This is why I believe the Big O will leave office with comparisons primarily to Herbert Hoover.
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I predict he will leave office like Hitler did. By his own hand with his country in ashes and his enemies closing in.
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NS, I swear his own historically illiterate supporters were rhetorically linking him with Hoover even before the election. Morons were marching around the nearby college town with "Obamaville" signs, not apparently having heard of Hoovervilles.
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I suspect that Barry, while facile and intelligent, really is a bit of any empty suit. I expect him to leave office alone like Bush and I hope with class as did Bush, but without Bush's inner confidence that he did the right things, without the support of any of those who put him in the job, and ultimately confused as to why things turned out this way, much as Hoover did.
No problem. Citi should have a coporate jet as a sign of its success.
Oh wait. They're being bailed out by the federal government.
Nice ride, though
I'll complain when the 600 Dhimmicrats who rode private jets to Obama-fest give up theirs ...
Beleaguered Citigroup is upgrading its mile-high club with a brand-new $50 million corporate jet - only this time, it's the taxpayers who are getting screwed.
Even though the bank's stock is as cheap as a gallon of gas and it's burning through a $45 billion taxpayer-funded rescue, the airhead execs pushed through the purchase of a new Dassault Falcon 7X, according to a source familiar with the deal.
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That's why you nationalize these failing banks/lending institutions, fire the top three layers, cap everyone pay to SES/GS levels [your bonus is you get to keep your job], and consolidate all the holdings [not just the toxic paper they dirty themselves with] into a single Bank of the United States - which by the way was originally chartered under Alexander Hamilton, first Secretary of the Treasury, hardly a purveyor of the ideas of Marxism and Socialism. This entire mindset has to be broken in the business and nothing focuses a man's mind like a good hanging [figurative or literal].
The high-flying execs at Citigroup caved under pressure from President Obama and decided today to abandon plans for a luxurious new $50 million corporate jet from France.
The bank used TARP funds to purchase a new corporate jet for executives.The decision came 24 hours after the banking giant, which was rescued by a $45 billion taxpayer lifeline, defended buying the state-of-the-art Dassault Falcon 7X -- one of nine to be flying in U.S. skies -- as a smart business deal. The jet, the epitome of corporate prestige and privilege, can carry 12 passengers in elegant comfort.
ABC News has learned that on Monday officials of the Obama administration called Citigroup about the company's new $50 million corporate jet and told execs to "fix it."
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Its time to bust those bastards and sell off their pieces. The U.S. govt is already the largest stockholder at 6% I believe.
There shouldn't be a single person, from the CEO to the guy who mops the floors at night taking home a bonus or a raise this year from Citi.
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They could have at least bought one used, from a distressed owner. Oh, wait - they *are* distressed. Halfwits.
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These guys at Citi are full of arrogance and hubris. They need to set their sights a bit lower in these tough times. We at Rantburg are here to help you with real solutions to your problems. You need air transportation, but you dont want to break the bank. Let me suggest this: a Curtiss C-46, all tricked out.
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Excellent AP. I remember years ago walking out on the ramp at the former Ladd AFB and snooping around an old Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Catalina PBY. The pilot came out and gave me a great tour. He was an old WWII pilot from Texas who spent 3-4 months with the BLM fighting fires. Used to be a lot of old warbirds up in those parts. Flew out to Galena a few times and saw some that didn't make it.
Oil prices crawled back above $46 a barrel Monday after falling more than $1 as White House officials warned the US recession would likely worsen in coming months, undermining demand for crude.
Light, sweet crude for March delivery rose 25 cents to $46.72 a barrel by midday in Europe in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose Friday $2.80 to settle at $46.47. Earlier Monday, it fell to $45.25 before recovering. In London, the March Brent contract was up 32 cents to $48.69 on the ICE Futures exchange.
Monday's recovery continued last week's trend, which saw the Nymex contract gain over 9 percent even as demand concerns magnified, confounding market experts.
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...Let me get this straight: Demand goes down, so price increases?
I give the hell up.
Mike
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OPEC will manipulate the supply until their target price of $75 is reached. That's $350 billion per year leaving our economy. The greatest impact most Americans can have to defeat this latest incarnation of the muslims' jihad is make their next car purchase a high mileage one.
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Let me get this straight: Demand goes down, so price increases?
I give the hell up.
Last week a I heard of at least one offshore drilling company that was laying off thousands of people because of the recession and the drop in oil prices.
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Let me get this straight: Demand goes down, so price increases?
Any different than the pols telling people to cut back on water or utility usage and then turn around when it happens and say they have to increase rates because of bond obligations [not being paid at the committed rate predicated upon the higher usage]?
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Or the pols telling us out of one side of their mouth that Americans don't save enough, so its our fault.
Then out of the other side of their mouth telling us that our economy will be destroyed if we quit spending?!?
You just can' win. I'd be real interested in just scrapping the lot of them and starting anew.
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You just can' win. I'd be real interested in just scrapping the lot of them and starting anew.
The only way to do that, bigjim, is to kill off those in power (down to the County level), and tell any that want to take over the job the same thing can happen to them unless they refrain from crooked behavior. You'd also have to scrap virtually the entire Civil Service (not a really bad idea, btw) and build something that actually WORKS in its place. The resistance to that would be astronomical, but failing to do it won't eliminate the problem.
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OP,
To do that you'd need other people to do the work. People who have experience putting back a country from scratch. People who don't want to stay in that business but willingly if not happily give up that power to someone else when the whole enchilada starts running itself again. Sorta of like Germany, Japan, Iraq. Now who do we have who can do stuff like that? Oh, wait, never mind.
On a frigid evening this month, more than 10,000 people gathered outside a 13th-century cathedral in this Baltic capital to protest the government's handling of Latvia's economic crisis and demand early elections. It's gonna get worse before it gets better.
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It's not the crisis they're protesting, it's the utter and complete contempt the government has expressed for its people during the crisis.
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ION CHINESE MIL FORUM > GLOBALRESEARCH.CA - GLOBAL MILITARY BLOCS: NATO'S DRIVE INTO ASIA.
US-NATO expansionism into mainland Asia as a "justified" Western + Democratic defence agz Radical Islamism = "GOOD/POSITIVE IMPERIALISM".
versus:
STRATFOR: STRATEGIC DIVERGENCE: THE WAR AGZ THE TALIBAN AND THE WAR AGZ AL-QAEDA [New US strategic focii beyond Radical Islam].
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Having apparently lost its clout over the past two years, Egypt's protest group Kefaya (Enough) has vowed to rejuvenate its tactics after electing a new leader.
Concern about the recently passed Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act is just beginning to bubble to the top of the news cycle (In between hyperventilating about corporate jets and Michele Obama's dress sense, of course)
