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The silence from ballmer shows a even greater embarrassment.

'I'll fucking kill Google', 'We will bury google', attempting to buy yahoo shows ballmer's abject failure. The money thrown away on rebranding MSN to Live has proven a complete waste.

M$'s biggest problem is that ballmer has completely surrounded himself with yes men, agree or get fired, so they all squat in their various board rooms convincing themselves that they are really smart and that ballmer is a genius, which invariably leads to ballmer making another immature boast.

Will ballmer apologise to M$'s shareholders or will his behaviour and the behaviour of his executive chorus more closely align with this http://www.sott.net/articles/show/148141-The-Trick-of-the-Psychopath-s-Trade-Make-Us-Believe-that-Evil-Comes-from-Others, an interesting read that does really reflect the behaviour of some governments and a lot of corporations.

Thanks for your points.

I did some more digging and ran across an article which suggests that apparently Ammonium was found in quantities in the area of the caldera. While Ammonium is a small component of volcanic gas, it is also observed in, significantly, meteoric matter.

As a point of interest, that article also suggests that the Black Plague was perhaps not limited to one disease, but that cometary atmospheric explosions were occurring in that period and may also have offered a significant contributing factor to the death toll.

-FL

So how would a return to a gold standard work with international trade? The amount of currency is fixed, so paying off our national debt would lead to massive deflation, leading to a recession and a general economic fuckup.

Yeah. I think that trying to fix a single element of the existing system would be like trying to re-structure a house of cards.

But systems tend to automatically correct themselves given enough time. A bit of mass-chaos and starvation will lead us to an answer as to how things might better work. It's that uncomfortable period of dark-age in between which nobody likes. --And which explains all the crazy stories of underground bases and general end-of-times preparations which the super-wealthy are running around hoping will save their spotted rear-ends. Until greed and psychopathy are removed from the equation, even a system founded on sense and rationality will break down.

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I dislike death and destruction no matter who perpetrates it, and right now, Israel is behaving abysmally. I have plenty of Jewish friends who are outraged by the actions of the Israeli government and certainly do not offer apologist nonsense to justify genocide.

This is not a matter of, "Well, OTHER nations also kill people, so why can't we?" That's crap. ALL killing is hideous, and Israel happens to be doing a lot of it with great boldness and the world community is too frightened of being labeled 'anti-semitic' to speak out against it as would happen with any other conflict. I wonder if you know exactly how bad it is. You seem not to. --But let me tell you, I've known people who served as soldiers in the IDF who are patently insane; who laugh and joke with sick glee about getting high on various drugs and tormenting and killing people without provocation as though they were lower life-forms. Sick, sick, sick. There is NO valid justification for such behavior.

--And there is a great deal of history behind the whys and wherefores which have led to this situation, much of which is rooted in the screwed up history of the bible, and the manipulation of mankind throughout the ages to bring us all into a time where people are turned against people as we are today.

My personal belief is that Jews are in fact being herded to Israel for eventual destruction. --The history of violence in Europe contains numerous tales of Zionist subversive actions against Jews themselves, trying to make Jews retreat to Israel for 'protection'. Now why would they do that? Why would the Zionist movement, some of the originators of which were actually working with Nazi interests, want all the Jews in one place, surrounded by nations which they provoke endlessly? --And what would happen if one day Washington suddenly decided to stop funding the Israeli military?

The mind-job perpetrated upon the Jews is huge, and it is tragic, and the only way to work through it is to accumulate knowledge, rather than absorb only the messages provided by the media. Here's a good site with a lot of solid info you might want to look at.

-FL