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Wiki Editor Helps Reveal Pre-9/11 CIA Mistakes
An anonymous reader writes "Kevin Fenton was reading the Department of Justice's 2004 Inspector General report on pre-9/11 intelligence failures. Parts of it didn't make sense to him, so he decided to add the information in the report to Paul Thompson's 9/11 timeline at the wiki-style website History Commons. Eventually, Fenton's work led him to uncover the identity of a CIA manager who ran the Bin Ladin unit before 9/11, when agents there deliberately withheld information about two 9/11 hijackers from the FBI. That manager was named Richard Earl Blee and he is now the subject of a documentary by Ray Nowosielski and John Duffy, of secrecykills.org, who confirmed his identity using techniques right out of the 70s film All the President's Men. Blee, along with Cofer Black and George Tenet, have found the work disturbing enough to release a joint statement denying some of the allegations."
Exactly, but this won't stop the truther derp brigade from donning their tinfoil hats, regardless.
Just so's you know, the problem isn't taxes, it's demand.
- Just so you know, the problem is not demand, it's supply.
You see, when 2 people trade they are not trading for money, they are trading for things they want. If 1 produces food and another produces fuel, they are trading food for fuel. They are doing so because they both benefit from the comparative advantage of each doing something better - more efficiently than the other.
Money is introduced into the system so it's easy to trade for things that are of not equal value, so a kitchen food processor is not the same value as one eggplant for example.
Money always begins as something valuable, scarce, recognizable, easy to test, easy to measure, not poisonous, not explosive, not radioactive, easy to mint coins out of and something that does not go bad over time, so we've used gold for ages. Eventually people always try to counterfeit the money to be able to BUY stuff but produce NOTHING for it. They invent all sorts of scams, which can be even benign at first - introduce paper bank notes to signify amount of actual gold that a person has, trade with notes, but go to a bank and get your actual money out of it.
Eventually the government hijacks the system and figures out a way to steal everybody's money and start counterfeiting just the paper itself, thus stealing everybody's purchasing power and stealing products without creating anything back into the system. So this is wealth stolen and goods underproduced.
USA is running a scam like that upon the rest of the world because its currency is so called 'reserve' and other productive people give it things, products for the fake currency USA is printing, but nothing can be gotten from USA for this fake currency.
53Billion USD/month and 40% of all gov't money borrowed that is spent is the indicator that USA as a country and the government itself cannot pay for what it consumes, but there is plenty of demand. ALL of the counterfeit money, ALL of the borrowing, ALL of the taxing - it's all demand.
But those who want to consume are not producing. But the reason that production capacity isn't present in the system is the very government that PRICED OUT the US worker from the labor market with all of the regulations, taxes, subsidies, labor laws, everything that makes US worker unproductive, uncompetitive, not worth hiring and thus in reality useless to those, who actually produce for living, and even worse - dead weight, that is consuming but not producing to balance the trade.
Balancing of the trade is not just an esoteric abstract concept, it's very obvious from the monthly imbalance of trade that is easy to show in exact amount of money that is sent abroad minus the money that is sent into USA. The difference is what USA is underproducing.
Those who create jobs - the 'rich', (and no, poor do not create jobs, with any sort of subsidy they only consume wealth, they don't produce it), they now are under a constant attack from all fronts, which is set up by the government that hijacked the economy and is now ruling it into a total collapse.
What is needed is complete stop of all government spending except for bare minimum border protection and the court system. EVERYTHING else needs to stop, all spending needs to stop, all borrowing, debts need to be restructured, millions of unproductive people need to LOSE their jobs. TENS of millions, of people need to lose their jobs. The consumption must stop. People will have to work in order to save real investment capital and restart production and then people can be rehired to do useful, trade imbalance reducing jobs.
NOBODY should be getting any QE, any TARP, any counterfeit money from any government, it all must be balanced within the economy without government intervention.
Economies are created by private individuals who work to live better, that's all there is to it. When economies become strong and rich, governments - the parasites of the economy - become stronger b
You can't handle the truth.