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How so? Are you saying the earth can support an unlimited amount of people? Does the truth scare you so that your mind shuts down with cognitive dissonance? Don't worry, your not alone. The truth is so obvious, the consequences so tragic, that 99% of people reach their intellectual limits...

Do you understand what exponential growth is? Well, to find out when something that consistently grows doubles, you divide the growth rate by 70 (the logarithmic number). Thus, if pension plans need their investments to continually grow by 8% per year, they need to double every 8.75. EVERY...

More mideast crap. Races fighting over a fictional god that "promised" them some fucked up unarable land with no oil. He cursed all his followers of the big 3 - well maybe, he's not as crazy as I initially thought.... Maybe he has a fucked up sense of humor. Is god a Christopher Walken...

So what you're saying is that we can never impact the environment, even when every Chinese and Indian citizen lives like the average American. Peil, there's a difference between economic freedoms and economic and environmental realities. Up to now, we have barely felt the affects of our...

The same was said of GWB. Didn't he talk to god for advice? You know, the "higher father." Why are you politicizing a religious thread?

It's not always harmonious. There are always collisions. We'll be due for one in a few billion years. A blink of an eye in the course of deep time.

So, this must mean that either Zeus or Poseidon are angry. I think Poseidon was in charge of earthquakes, and of course, water. My money is on Poseidon.

Why? Because it's still a dump. And Palm Trees? Please... lol... You attach weather and Palm trees to wealth? lol. There's a lot more to it. But at the risk of sounding like a conspiratorial nutjob, I won't bother. I'll just say this: The drug network in the inner cities and the...

The same could be said about the inner-city Irish in the 1880s. Actually, it was. Dumbass, I didn't dodge the question, I ignored it because it is so broadly written, it could include any race. You could say the same thing about whites. Name me one white population that has zero violence...

Yeah, those crazy Zulus got what was coming to them when they invaded the British Isles. Oh wait... I would say that most deaths from murders/wars the past five hundred years were caused by whitey. Hands down. How many brown/black countries bomb or invade white countries? How many white...

Dumbass. Inner cities have always been a hotbed of violence. Even before blacks moved in. Are you familiar with the Irish gangs in the mid to late 1800s? How about the Italians in the early 1900s? Many inner cities were cesspools of violence back then - no different than today - but for...

I'm likely moving to Greece early next year. My situation is different, my family has a couple homes on an island. We also have vineyards and acres of olive trees that have been left idle. My living arrangement would be free. Everyone there has WiFi. My question is can I bring all my...

Google Petrodollar recylcing. Having the world's reserve (fiat) currency also allows one to print money for oil and other goods manufactured abroad. Furthermore, when other countries have excess dollars, they buy your debt, so you have a captive market for debt and rates are much lower than...

I don't think so. I think Iran's goal of getting nukes is real. However, the motivation in my view is different than the conventional wisdom. They don't want to nuke Israel, I don't think they are that crazy; they want to defend themselves. They see how the powers treat North Korea with kid...

Exactly. The Byzantines were much more advanced and much more wealthy. They lasted about another thousand years to be immediately replaced by the Ottomans. Just at that same time when Byzantium fell, the city states of Italy - Florence, Milan, Venice, were rising and the Renaissance was...

LOL. It already happened.

Look at England. Now why the hell did Brown do this in 2007? "GORDON BROWN is to face questions in parliament after revelations that he disregarded advice from the Bank of England before he sold off more than half the country’s gold reserves at the bottom of the market. "...

+1 I agree that all systems (isms) have good intentions in theory. But in practice, over time, a self serving oligarchy always forms. That's when the system crashes from its own weight and something new arises. It's an unavoidable cycle of civilization.

Yo Z. saying 1+1 must = 2 is not crazy. Saying 1+1 can = 3, or even 50 is crazy. The math cannot lie. Because if you believe that we can continue these deficits, pay for the military, SS, medicare, unemployment, backstop the US financial sector, continue stimuli..... without dire...

We worry that all the results of our working could likely vanish one day. That said - isn't it rational to worry or be angry?